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

[Chao Yu]

On 2020/3/25 10:17, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 03/25, Chao Yu wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> We do have.

Well, so I didn't catch your point why we will confuse. :P

> 
>>
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>> .
>>>
> .
>