Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules

From: Adam Borowski
Date: Sat Jul 22 2017 - 07:35:34 EST


On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:56:21AM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> On 2017-07-20 17:27, Nick Terrell wrote:
> > This patch set adds xxhash, zstd compression, and zstd decompression
> > modules. It also adds zstd support to BtrFS and SquashFS.
> >
> > Each patch has relevant summaries, benchmarks, and tests.
>
> For patches 2-3, I've compile tested and had runtime testing running for
> about 18 hours now with no issues, so you can add:
>
> Tested-by: Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx>

I assume you haven't tried it on arm64, right?

I had no time to get 'round to it before, and just got the following build
failure:

CC fs/btrfs/zstd.o
In file included from fs/btrfs/zstd.c:28:0:
fs/btrfs/compression.h:39:2: error: unknown type name ârefcount_tâ
refcount_t pending_bios;
^~~~~~~~~~
scripts/Makefile.build:302: recipe for target 'fs/btrfs/zstd.o' failed

It's trivially fixably by:
--- a/fs/btrfs/zstd.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/zstd.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/bio.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
#include <linux/zstd.h>
#include "compression.h"

after which it works fine, although half an hour of testing isn't exactly
exhaustive.


Alas, the armhf machine I ran stress tests (Debian archive rebuilds) on
doesn't boot with 4.13-rc1 due to some unrelated regression, bisecting that
would be quite painful so I did not try yet. I guess re-testing your patch
set on 4.12, even with btrfs-for-4.13 (which it had for a while), wouldn't
be of much help. So far, previous versions have been running for weeks,
with no issue since you fixed workspace flickering.


On amd64 all is fine.


I haven't tested SquashFS at all.


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