Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove redundant compress inode check

From: Chao Yu
Date: Tue Mar 24 2020 - 21:26:22 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> 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.
>>>
> .
>