Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] fs: add RWF_ENCODED for reading/writing compressed data

Josef Bacik
2020-08-24T19:07:23Z

On 8/21/20 3:38 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
>
> Btrfs supports transparent compression: data written by the user can be
> compressed when written to disk and decompressed when read back.
> However, we'd like to add an interface to write pre-compressed data
> directly to the filesystem, and the matching interface to read
> compressed data without decompressing it. This adds support for
> so-called "encoded I/O" via preadv2() and pwritev2().
>
> A new RWF_ENCODED flags indicates that a read or write is "encoded". If
> this flag is set, iov[0].iov_base points to a struct encoded_iov which
> is used for metadata: namely, the compression algorithm, unencoded
> (i.e., decompressed) length, and what subrange of the unencoded data
> should be used (needed for truncated or hole-punched extents and when
> reading in the middle of an extent). For reads, the filesystem returns
> this information; for writes, the caller provides it to the filesystem.
> iov[0].iov_len must be set to sizeof(struct encoded_iov), which can be
> used to extend the interface in the future a la copy_struct_from_user().
> The remaining iovecs contain the encoded extent.
>
> This adds the VFS helpers for supporting encoded I/O and documentation
> for filesystem support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

Thanks,

Josef