linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 05/24] erofs: add inode operations

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Message-ID: <20190829115922.GG64893@architecture4>
Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:59:22 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@...x.de>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        "Dave Chinner" <david@...morbit.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@...wei.com>,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/24] erofs: add inode operations

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 03:24:26AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

[]

> 
> > +
> > +		/* fill last page if inline data is available */
> > +		err = fill_inline_data(inode, data, ofs);
> 
> Well, I think you should move the is_inode_flat_inline and
> (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_size < PAGE_SIZE) checks from that
> helper here, as otherwise you make everyone wonder why you'd always
> fill out the inline data.

Currently, fill_inline_data() only fills for fast symlink,
later we can fill any tail-end block (such as dir block)
for our requirements.

And I think that is minor.

> 
> > +static inline struct inode *erofs_iget_locked(struct super_block *sb,
> > +					      erofs_nid_t nid)
> > +{
> > +	const unsigned long hashval = erofs_inode_hash(nid);
> > +
> > +#if BITS_PER_LONG >= 64
> > +	/* it is safe to use iget_locked for >= 64-bit platform */
> > +	return iget_locked(sb, hashval);
> > +#else
> > +	return iget5_locked(sb, hashval, erofs_ilookup_test_actor,
> > +		erofs_iget_set_actor, &nid);
> > +#endif
> 
> Just use the slightly more complicated 32-bit version everywhere so that
> you have a single actually tested code path.  And then remove this
> helper.

The consideration is simply because iget_locked performs better
than iget5_locked.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang