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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:17:02 -0700
From:   Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
To:     Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove redundant compress inode check
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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@huawei.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  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.

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