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Message-ID: <910e5533-4abc-85f1-6bfc-4d776f8bed7b@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:57:03 +0800
From:   Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
To:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <phillip@...ashfs.org.uk>
CC:     <wangle6@...wei.com>, <yi.zhang@...wei.com>,
        <zhongjubin@...wei.com>, <chenjianguo3@...wei.com>
Subject: ping// Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] squashfs: Add the mount parameter
 "threads="

ping

On 2022/9/30 17:14, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
> Currently, Squashfs supports multiple decompressor parallel modes. However, this
> mode can be configured only during kernel building and does not support flexible
> selection during runtime.
> 
> In the current patch set, the mount parameter "threads=" is added to allow users
> to select the parallel decompressor mode and configure the number of decompressors
> when mounting a file system.
> 
> "threads=<single|multi|percpu|1|2|3|...>"
> The upper limit is num_online_cpus() * 2.
> 
> v5: fix a low-level mistake in patching:
>    fs/squashfs/super.c:492:7: warning: "CONFIG_SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI" is
>    not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Wundef]
> 
> v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220916083604.33408-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com/
>   Based on Philip Lougher's suggestion, make the following updates:
>   1. Use static modifiers to avoid changing symbol names.
>   2. Fixed some formatting issues
> 
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220902094855.22666-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com/
>    Based on Philip Lougher's suggestion, make the following updates:
>    1. The default configuration is the same as that before the patch installation.
>    2. Compile the three decompression modes when the new configuration is enabled.
>    3. "threads=1" supports only the SQUASHFS_DECOMP_SINGLE mode.
> 
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220816010052.15764-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com/
>    fix warning: sparse: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
>    Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220815031100.75243-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com/
> 
> Xiaoming Ni (2):
>    squashfs: add the mount parameter theads=<single|multi|percpu>
>    squashfs: Allows users to configure the number of  decompression
>      threads
> 
>   fs/squashfs/Kconfig                     | 51 ++++++++++++++++--
>   fs/squashfs/block.c                     |  2 +-
>   fs/squashfs/decompressor.c              |  2 +-
>   fs/squashfs/decompressor_multi.c        | 20 ++++---
>   fs/squashfs/decompressor_multi_percpu.c | 23 +++++---
>   fs/squashfs/decompressor_single.c       | 15 ++++--
>   fs/squashfs/squashfs.h                  | 23 ++++++--
>   fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h            |  4 +-
>   fs/squashfs/super.c                     | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   9 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>