From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] iomap: support tail packing inline read
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:31:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPWozhzNIljcC83R@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YPWkRRzy5reIMu8u@B-P7TQMD6M-0146.local>
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:11:49AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 05:13:10PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 04:02:30PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > + if (iomap->type == IOMAP_INLINE) {
> > > > + iomap_read_inline_data(inode, page, iomap, pos);
> > > > + plen = PAGE_SIZE - poff;
> > > > + goto done;
> > > > + }
> > >
> > > This is going to break Andreas' case that he just patched to work.
> > > GFS2 needs for there to _not_ be an iop for inline data. That's
> > > why I said we need to sort out when to create an iop before moving
> > > the IOMAP_INLINE case below the creation of the iop.
> > >
> > > If we're not going to do that first, then I recommend leaving the
> > > IOMAP_INLINE case where it is and changing it to ...
> > >
> > > if (iomap->type == IOMAP_INLINE)
> > > return iomap_read_inline_data(inode, page, iomap, pos);
> > >
> > > ... and have iomap_read_inline_data() return the number of bytes that
> > > it copied + zeroed (ie PAGE_SIZE - poff).
> >
> > Returning the bytes is much cleaner anyway. But we still need to deal
> > with the sub-page uptodate status in one form or another.
>
> There is another iomap_read_inline_data() caller as in:
> +static int iomap_write_begin_inline(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos,
> + struct page *page, struct iomap *srcmap)
> +{
> + /* needs more work for the tailpacking case, disable for now */
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pos != 0))
> + return -EIO;
> + if (PageUptodate(page))
> + return 0;
> + iomap_read_inline_data(inode, page, srcmap, pos);
> + return 0;
> +}
>
> I'd like to avoid it as (void)iomap_read_inline_data(...). That's why it
> left as void return type.
You don't need to cast away the return value in C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-19 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-19 14:47 [PATCH v3] iomap: support tail packing inline read Gao Xiang
2021-07-19 15:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-19 15:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-19 16:11 ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-19 16:31 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-07-19 16:45 ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-19 15:29 ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-19 15:31 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-19 15:36 ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-20 11:23 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-20 12:10 ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-20 11:34 ` Andreas Grünbacher
2021-07-20 12:23 ` Gao Xiang
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