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btrfs: prepare compression for bs > ps support

From:  Qu Wenruo <wqu-AT-suse.com>
To:  linux-btrfs-AT-vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [PATCH 0/4] btrfs: prepare compression for bs > ps support
Date:  Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:08:36 +0930
Message-ID:  <cover.1757388121.git.wqu@suse.com>
Archive-link:  Article

This is the compression part support for bs > ps cases.

The main trick involved is the handling of compr folios, the main
changes are:

- Compressed folios now need to follow the minimal order
  This is the requirement for the recently added btrfs_for_each_block*()
  helpers, and this keeps our code from handling sub-block sized ranges.

- No cached compression folios for bs > ps cases
  Those folios are large and are not sharable between other fses, and
  most of btrfs will use 4K (until storage with 16K block size got
  popular).

- Extra rejection of HIGHMEM systems with bs > ps support
  Unfortunately HIGHMEM large folios need us to map them page by page,
  this breaks our principle of no sub-block handling.

  Considering HIGHMEM is always a pain in the backend and is already
  planned for deprecation, it's best for everyone to just reject bs > ps
  btrfses on HIGHMEM systems.

Please still keep in mind that, raid56, scrub, encoded write are not yet
supporting bs > ps cases.

For now I have only done basic read/write/balance/offline data check
tests on bs > ps cases with all 4 compression algorithms (none, lzo, zlib,
zstd), so far so good.

If some one wants to play with the incomplete bs > ps cases, the
following simple diff will enable the work:

 --- a/fs/btrfs/fs.c
 +++ b/fs/btrfs/fs.c
 @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ bool __attribute_const__ btrfs_supported_blocksize(u32 blocksize)
          */
         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HIGHMEM) && blocksize > PAGE_SIZE)
                 return false;
 -       if (blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE)
 -               return true;
 +       return true;
  #endif
         return false;
  }

The remaining features and their road maps are:

- Encoded writes
  This should be the most simple part.

- RAID56
  Needs to convert the page usage into folio one first.

- Scrub
  This relies on some RAID56 interfaces for parity handling.
  Otherwise pretty like RAID56, we need to convert the page usage to
  folios first.

Qu Wenruo (4):
  btrfs: prepare compression folio alloc/free for bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare zstd to support bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare lzo to support bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare zlib to support bs > ps cases

 fs/btrfs/compression.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 fs/btrfs/compression.h |  2 +-
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c   |  7 +++--
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.h   |  3 ++-
 fs/btrfs/fs.c          | 17 ++++++++++++
 fs/btrfs/fs.h          |  6 +++++
 fs/btrfs/inode.c       |  5 ++--
 fs/btrfs/lzo.c         | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 fs/btrfs/zlib.c        | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 fs/btrfs/zstd.c        | 44 +++++++++++++++++--------------
 10 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)

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2.50.1




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