Re: [PATCH v2] erofs: drop all vle annotations for runtime names

[Chao Yu]

On 2019/11/8 11:37, Gao Xiang wrote:
> VLE was an old informal name of fixed-sized output
> compression came from released ATC'19 paper [1].
> 
> Drop those old annotations since erofs can handle
> all encoded clusters in block-aligned basis, which
> is wider than fixed-sized output compression after
> larger clustersize feature is fully implemented.
> 
> Unaligned encoded data won't be considered in EROFS
> since it's not friendly to inplace I/O and decompression
> inplace.
> 
> a) Fixed-sized output compression with 16KB pcluster:
>   ___________________________________
>  |xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|
>  |___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___| physical blocks
> 
> b) Block-aligned fixed-sized input compression with
>    16KB pcluster:
>   ___________________________________
>  |xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxx00000|
>  |___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___| physical blocks
> 
> c) Block-unaligned fixed-sized input compression with
>    16KB compression unit:
>   ____________________________________________
>  |..xxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|x.......|
>  |___ 0___|___ 1___|___ 2___|___ 3___|___ 4___| physical blocks
> 
> Refine better names for those as well.
> 
> [1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/gao
> 
> Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,