Re: [PATCH 00/15] Remove callback indirections in compression code

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 02:22:21PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> The series removes all per-compression algorithm callbacks and replaces
> them with a switches. Lots of indirections are simplified and while it
> looks nice from design POV, we don't need to over-engineer it as we have
> only fixed known number of the users and not public API.
> 
> The cost of indirect function calls is also higher with enabled
> mitigations of the spectre vulnerability, so they've been incrementally
> removed from the whole kernel and from btrfs as well.
> 
> David Sterba (15):
>   btrfs: export compression and decompression callbacks
>   btrfs: switch compression callbacks to direct calls
>   btrfs: compression: attach workspace manager to the ops
>   btrfs: compression: let workspace manager init take only the type
>   btrfs: compression: inline init_workspace_manager
>   btrfs: compression: let workspace manager cleanup take only the type
>   btrfs: compression: inline cleanup_workspace_manager
>   btrfs: compression: export alloc/free/get/put callbacks of all algos
>   btrfs: compression: inline get_workspace
>   btrfs: compression: inline put_workspace
>   btrfs: compression: pass type to btrfs_get_workspace
>   btrfs: compression: inline alloc_workspace
>   btrfs: compression: pass type to btrfs_put_workspace
>   btrfs: compression: inline free_workspace
>   btrfs: compression: remove ops pointer from workspace_manager

Added to misc-next.



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