linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove redundant compress inode check

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Message-ID: <b0306fcf-27f2-20ab-9e5b-e54a924d4a61@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:26:05 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <chao@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove redundant compress inode check

On 2020/3/24 23:43, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 03/24, Chao Yu wrote:
>> Jaegeuk,
>>
>> Missed to apply this patch?
>>
>> On 2020/2/29 18:49, Chao Yu wrote:
>>> due to f2fs_post_read_required() has did that.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
>>> ---
>>>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 --
>>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
>>> index f4bcbbd5e9ed..882f9ad3445b 100644
>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
>>> @@ -4006,8 +4006,6 @@ static inline bool f2fs_force_buffered_io(struct inode *inode,
>>>  		return true;
>>>  	if (f2fs_is_multi_device(sbi))
>>>  		return true;
>>> -	if (f2fs_compressed_file(inode))
>>> -		return true;
> 
> I thought that we can keep this to avoid any confusion when porting to old
> production kernel which uses ICE.

That old kernel w/ ICE doesn't have f2fs_post_read_required(), right?

I thought we backport features with order of the time fsverity/compression
feature was introduced, then f2fs_post_read_required() should be there
when we backport compression feature.

Thanks,

> 
>>>  	/*
>>>  	 * for blkzoned device, fallback direct IO to buffered IO, so
>>>  	 * all IOs can be serialized by log-structured write.
>>>
> .
>