Re: [RFC NO MERGE] f2fs: extent cache: support unaligned extent

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Mon Aug 02 2021 - 21:25:12 EST


On 08/03, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2021/8/3 2:03, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > On 08/01, Chao Yu wrote:
> > > On 2021/7/31 3:20, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > > > On 07/07, Chao Yu wrote:
> > > > > Currently, it only works in readonly format f2fs image.
> > >
> > > There wouldn't be any race condition because unaligned extent only works
> > > for ro feature now?
> >
> > Isn't your patch proposing on writable partition?
>
> Please check description in patch message, now it was designed only for
--
what do you refer "it"?

> compression case w/ ro feature, let's check and support rw partition later.

Quite confused the patch description and code changes as well. You added some
change with this as well which is for RW.

+ if (is_inode_flag_set(dn->inode, FI_COMPRESSED_FILE) &&
+ !f2fs_sb_has_readonly(sbi)) {

>
> Thanks,
>
> >
> > >
> > > > Is there any race condition between the address in extent_cache and the one in
> > > > dnode? I feel that we could synchronize it by locking its dnode block.
> > >
> > > Thanks,