linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] f2fs: compress: don't compress any datas after cp stop

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 10:46:38 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <chao@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: compress: don't compress any datas after cp stop

Jaegeuk, could you please review this patch?

On 2020/5/26 9:55, Chao Yu wrote:
> While compressed data writeback, we need to drop dirty pages like we did
> for non-compressed pages if cp stops, however it's not needed to compress
> any data in such case, so let's detect cp stop condition in
> cluster_may_compress() to avoid redundant compressing and let following
> f2fs_write_raw_pages() drops dirty pages correctly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
> ---
>  fs/f2fs/compress.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/compress.c b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> index bf152c0d79fe..a53578a89211 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> @@ -849,6 +849,8 @@ static bool cluster_may_compress(struct compress_ctx *cc)
>  		return false;
>  	if (!f2fs_cluster_is_full(cc))
>  		return false;
> +	if (unlikely(f2fs_cp_error(F2FS_I_SB(cc->inode))))
> +		return false;
>  	return __cluster_may_compress(cc);
>  }
>  
>