From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Squashfs: Generalise paging handling in the decompressors (V2)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:29:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131108052955.GA4038@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383855865-4683-5-git-send-email-phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:24:23PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Further generalise the decompressors by adding a page handler
> abstraction. This adds helpers to allow the decompressors
> to access and process the output buffers in an implementation
> independant manner.
>
> This allows different types of output buffer to be passed
> to the decompressors, with the implementation specific
> aspects handled at decompression time, but without the
> knowledge being held in the decompressor wrapper code.
>
> This will allow the decompressors to handle Squashfs
> cache buffers, and page cache pages.
>
> This patch adds the abstraction and an implementation for
> the caches.
>
> V2: also update the code in decompressor_multi*.c
Thanks!
>
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-08 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 20:24 [PATCH 0/6] Squashfs performance improvements Phillip Lougher
2013-11-07 20:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code (V2) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-07 20:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] Squashfs: enhance parallel I/O Phillip Lougher
2013-11-07 20:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] Squashfs: add multi-threaded decompression using percpu variables Phillip Lougher
2013-11-08 2:42 ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-14 17:04 ` Phillip Lougher
2013-11-18 8:08 ` J. R. Okajima
2013-11-19 2:12 ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-07 20:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] Squashfs: Generalise paging handling in the decompressors (V2) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-08 5:29 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2013-11-07 20:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] Squashfs: restructure squashfs_readpage() Phillip Lougher
2013-11-08 5:55 ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-08 6:02 ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-07 20:24 ` [PATCH 6/6] Squashfs: Directly decompress into the page cache for file data (V2) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-08 8:23 ` Minchan Kim
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