From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Matheus Alves de Almeida <matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, brauner@kernel.org,
djwong@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] fat: support FIEMAP
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2026 23:51:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tslrtlyu.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261031164326.278125-2-matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>
Matheus Alves de Almeida <matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br> writes:
> Implement support for ->fiemap() using iomap_fiemap(). Add a read-only
> fat_iomap_begin() and a fat_get_cont_clusters() helper for finding
> contiguous clusters.
Not fully reviewed and I'm not understanding iomap fully though.
> Signed-off-by: Matheus Alves de Almeida <matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>
> ---
> fs/fat/Kconfig | 1 +
> fs/fat/Makefile | 2 +-
> fs/fat/cache.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> fs/fat/fat.h | 5 ++++
> fs/fat/file.c | 12 ++++++++
> fs/fat/iomap.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 fs/fat/iomap.c
>
[...]
> diff --git a/fs/fat/cache.c b/fs/fat/cache.c
> index 1b87354e24ba..f545e1db1d47 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/cache.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/cache.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static int fat_cache_lookup(struct inode *inode, int fclus,
> struct fat_cache_id *cid,
> int *cached_fclus, int *cached_dclus)
> {
> - static struct fat_cache nohit = { .fcluster = 0, };
> + static struct fat_cache nohit = { .fcluster = -1, };
Maybe this change is pointless?
> struct fat_cache *hit = &nohit, *p;
> int offset = -1;
> @@ -217,14 +217,16 @@ static inline void cache_init(struct fat_cache_id *cid, int fclus, int dclus)
> cid->nr_contig = 0;
> }
>
> -int fat_get_cluster(struct inode *inode, int cluster, int *fclus, int *dclus)
> +static int __fat_get_cluster(struct inode *inode, int cluster, int *fclus,
> + int *dclus, int *nr_cont)
> {
> struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(sb);
> const int limit = sb->s_maxbytes >> sbi->cluster_bits;
> struct fat_entry fatent;
> struct fat_cache_id cid;
[...]
>
> if (fat_cache_lookup(inode, cluster, &cid, fclus, dclus) < 0) {
> - /*
> - * dummy, always not contiguous
> - * This is reinitialized by cache_init(), later.
> - */
> - cache_init(&cid, -1, -1);
> + /* Cache the contiguous prefix from the known first cluster. */
> + cache_init(&cid, 0, *dclus);
Doesn't this add a needless cache? 0 is cached in the inode itself,
isn't it? (and can be waste small fatent cache slots?)
> }
>
> + fcluster = *fclus;
> + dcluster = *dclus;
> fatent_init(&fatent);
> - while (*fclus < cluster) {
> + while (fcluster < last) {
> + if (nr_cont && fcluster == cluster && cid.fcluster != -1) {
cid.fcluster == -1 is possible with this patch?
> + fcluster = min(last, cid.fcluster + cid.nr_contig);
> + dcluster = cid.dcluster + fcluster - cid.fcluster;
> + if (fcluster == last)
> + break;
> + }
> +
Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-08 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-31 16:43 [RFC PATCH 0/8] fat: convert to iomap Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] fat: support FIEMAP Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-08 14:51 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2026-11-12 4:09 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-12 5:03 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2026-11-13 1:41 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] fat: use iomap for ->bmap() Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] fat: add iomap direct I/O support Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-08 14:56 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2026-11-12 4:18 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] fat: clean stale bdev buffers of newly allocated clusters Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-08 14:57 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2026-11-12 4:22 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] fat: drop ->write_begin() and ->write_end() usage from fat_cont_expand() Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-08 14:59 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2026-11-12 4:26 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] fat: add iomap buffered I/O support Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-08 15:03 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2026-11-12 4:35 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-11-12 5:06 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2026-11-13 1:49 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] fat: remove ->mmu_private Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-10-31 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] fat: add multi-cluster allocation for write Matheus Alves de Almeida
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