[RFC PATCH 0/8] staging: erofs: decompression inplace approach

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 02:52:21PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2019/6/18 14:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 02:18:00PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2019/6/18 13:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:47:08AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2019/6/18 4:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 02:16:11AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> >>>>>> At last, this is RFC patch v1, which means it is not suitable for
> >>>>>> merging soon... I'm still working on it, testing its stability
> >>>>>> these days and hope these patches get merged for 5.3 LTS
> >>>>>> (if 5.3 is a LTS version).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why would 5.3 be a LTS kernel?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> curious as to how you came up with that :)
> >>>>
> >>>> My personal thought is about one LTS kernel one year...
> >>>> Usually 5 versions after the previous kernel...(4.4 -> 4.9 -> 4.14 -> 4.19),
> >>>> which is not suitable for all historical LTSs...just prepare for 5.3...
> >>>
> >>> I try to pick the "last" kernel that is released each year, which
> >>> sometimes is 5 kernels, sometimes 4, sometimes 6, depending on the
> >>> release cycle.
> >>>
> >>> So odds are it will be 5.4 for the next LTS kernel, but we will not know
> >>> more until it gets closer to release time.
> >>
> >> Thanks for kindly explanation :)
> >>
> >> Anyway, I will test these patches, land to our commerical products and try the best
> >> efforts on making it more stable for Linux upstream to merge.
> > 
> > Sounds great.
> > 
> > But why do you need to add compression to get this code out of staging?
> > Why not move it out now and then add compression and other new features
> > to it then?
> 
> Move out of staging could be over several linux versions since I'd like to get
> majority fs people agreed to this.

You never know until you try :)

> Decompression inplace is an important part of erofs to show its performance
> benefits over existed compress filesystems and I tend to merge it in advance.

There is no requirement to show benefits over other filesystems in order
to get it merged, but I understand the feeling.  That's fine, we can
wait, we are not going anywhere...

thanks,

greg k-h