[PATCH 05/16] erofs: drop the old pagevec approach

Gao Xiang hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Fri Jul 15 17:19:46 AEST 2022


On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 03:07:37PM +0800, Yue Hu wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:20:40 +0800
> Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> 
> > Remove the old pagevec approach but keep z_erofs_page_type for now.
> > It will be reworked in the following commits as well.
> > 
> > Also rename Z_EROFS_NR_INLINE_PAGEVECS as Z_EROFS_INLINE_BVECS with
> > the new value 2 since it's actually enough to bootstrap.
> 
> I notice there are 2 comments as below which still use pagevec, should we
> update it as well?
> 
> [1] 
> * pagevec) since it can be directly decoded without I/O submission.
> [2]
> * for inplace I/O or pagevec (should be processed in strict order.)

Yeah, thanks for reminder... I will update it in this patch in the next
version.

> 
> BTW, utils.c includes needles <pagevec.h>, we can remove it along with the patchset
> or remove it later.

That is a completely different stuff, would you mind submitting a patch
to remove it if needed?

Thanks,
Gao Xiang


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