Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] btrfs: Add zstd support

From: Nick Terrell
Date: Thu Aug 10 2017 - 23:23:27 EST


On 8/10/17, 7:13 PM, "Adam Borowski" <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:39:02PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
>> Add zstd compression and decompression support to BtrFS.
>
> Re-tested on arm64, amd64 and i386, this time everything seems fine so far.
>
> As I'm too lazy to have a separate test setup for the zlib level patch,
> I'm using a dummy implementation:
>
> --- a/fs/btrfs/zstd.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/zstd.c
> @@ -423,10 +423,16 @@ static int zstd_decompress(struct list_head *ws, unsigned char *data_in,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static void zstd_set_level(struct list_head *ws, unsigned int type)
> +{
> + // TODO
> +}
> +
> const struct btrfs_compress_op btrfs_zstd_compress = {
> .alloc_workspace = zstd_alloc_workspace,
> .free_workspace = zstd_free_workspace,
> .compress_pages = zstd_compress_pages,
> .decompress_bio = zstd_decompress_bio,
> .decompress = zstd_decompress,
> + .set_level = zstd_set_level,
> };
>
>
> It might be worthwhile to do some early testing using different levels,
> though.

I'll run some preliminary tests and make sure nothing blows up and the
compression ratio looks good.

>
>
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