Re: [PATCH v3 01/23] multifd: Delete useless operation

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Juan Quintela (quintela@redhat.com) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> > * Juan Quintela (quintela@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> We are divining by page_size to multiply again in the only use.
> >              ^--- typo
> >> Once there, impreve the comments.
> >                   ^--- typo
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
> >
> > OK, with the typo's fixed:
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >
> > but, could you also explain the  x 2 (that's no worse than the current
> > code); is this defined somewhere in zlib?  I thought there was a routine
> > that told you the worst case?
> 
> Nowhere.
> 
> There are pathological cases where it can be worse.  Not clear at all
> how much (ok, for zlib it appears that it is on the order of dozen of
> bytes, because it marks it as uncompressed on the worst possible case),
> For zstd, there is not a clear/fast answer when you google.

For zlib:

ZEXTERN uLong ZEXPORT compressBound OF((uLong sourceLen));
/*
     compressBound() returns an upper bound on the compressed size after
   compress() or compress2() on sourceLen bytes.  It would be used before a
   compress() or compress2() call to allocate the destination buffer.
*/

> As this buffer is held for the whole migration, it is one for thread,
> this looked safe to me.  Notice that we are compressing 128 pages at a
> time, so for it not to compress anything looks very pathological.
> 
> But as one says, better safe than sorry.

Yeh.

Dave

> If anyone that knows more about zlib/zstd give me different values, I
> will change that in an additional patch.
> 
> Later, Juan.
> 
-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK