Add some new code comments on the log compress/decompress

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/iolog.c b/iolog.c
index 29997ce..5eca53b 100644
--- a/iolog.c
+++ b/iolog.c
@@ -691,6 +691,10 @@
 	stream->opaque = Z_NULL;
 	stream->next_in = Z_NULL;
 
+	/*
+	 * zlib magic - add 32 for auto-detection of gz header or not,
+	 * if we decide to store files in a gzip friendly format.
+	 */
 	if (gz_hdr)
 		wbits += 32;
 
@@ -700,7 +704,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-struct flush_chunk_iter {
+struct inflate_chunk_iter {
 	unsigned int seq;
 	void *buf;
 	size_t buf_size;
@@ -709,7 +713,7 @@
 };
 
 static void finish_chunk(z_stream *stream, FILE *f,
-			 struct flush_chunk_iter *iter)
+			 struct inflate_chunk_iter *iter)
 {
 	int ret;
 
@@ -723,8 +727,12 @@
 	iter->buf_size = iter->buf_used = 0;
 }
 
-static size_t flush_chunk(struct iolog_compress *ic, int gz_hdr, FILE *f,
-			  z_stream *stream, struct flush_chunk_iter *iter)
+/*
+ * Iterative chunk inflation. Handles cases where we cross into a new
+ * sequence, doing flush finish of previous chunk if needed.
+ */
+static size_t inflate_chunk(struct iolog_compress *ic, int gz_hdr, FILE *f,
+			    z_stream *stream, struct inflate_chunk_iter *iter)
 {
 	if (ic->seq != iter->seq) {
 		if (iter->seq)
@@ -770,9 +778,13 @@
 	return (void *) stream->next_in - ic->buf;
 }
 
-static void flush_gz_chunks(struct io_log *log, FILE *f)
+/*
+ * Inflate stored compressed chunks, or write them directly to the log
+ * file if so instructed.
+ */
+static void inflate_gz_chunks(struct io_log *log, FILE *f)
 {
-	struct flush_chunk_iter iter = { .chunk_sz = log->log_gz, };
+	struct inflate_chunk_iter iter = { .chunk_sz = log->log_gz, };
 	z_stream stream;
 
 	while (!flist_empty(&log->chunk_list)) {
@@ -781,10 +793,14 @@
 		ic = flist_first_entry(&log->chunk_list, struct iolog_compress, list);
 		flist_del(&ic->list);
 
-		if (log->log_gz_store)
-			fwrite(ic->buf, ic->len, 1, f);
-		else
-			flush_chunk(ic, log->log_gz_store, f, &stream, &iter);
+		if (log->log_gz_store) {
+			size_t ret;
+
+			ret = fwrite(ic->buf, ic->len, 1, f);
+			if (ret != 1 || ferror(f))
+				log_err("fio: error writing compressed log\n");
+		} else
+			inflate_chunk(ic, log->log_gz_store, f, &stream, &iter);
 
 		free_chunk(ic);
 	}
@@ -795,9 +811,14 @@
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Open compressed log file and decompress the stored chunks and
+ * write them to stdout. The chunks are stored sequentially in the
+ * file, so we iterate over them and do them one-by-one.
+ */
 int iolog_file_inflate(const char *file)
 {
-	struct flush_chunk_iter iter = { .chunk_sz = 64 * 1024 * 1024, };
+	struct inflate_chunk_iter iter = { .chunk_sz = 64 * 1024 * 1024, };
 	struct iolog_compress ic;
 	z_stream stream;
 	struct stat sb;
@@ -835,11 +856,17 @@
 
 	fclose(f);
 
+	/*
+	 * Each chunk will return Z_STREAM_END. We don't know how many
+	 * chunks are in the file, so we just keep looping and incrementing
+	 * the sequence number until we have consumed the whole compressed
+	 * file.
+	 */
 	total = ic.len;
 	do {
 		size_t ret;
 
-		ret = flush_chunk(&ic,  1, stdout, &stream, &iter);
+		ret = inflate_chunk(&ic,  1, stdout, &stream, &iter);
 		total -= ret;
 		if (!total)
 			break;
@@ -860,7 +887,7 @@
 
 #else
 
-static void flush_gz_chunks(struct io_log *log, FILE *f)
+static void inflate_gz_chunks(struct io_log *log, FILE *f)
 {
 }
 
@@ -879,7 +906,7 @@
 
 	buf = set_file_buffer(f);
 
-	flush_gz_chunks(log, f);
+	inflate_gz_chunks(log, f);
 
 	flush_samples(f, log->log, log->nr_samples * log_entry_sz(log));
 
@@ -910,6 +937,11 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZLIB
 
+/*
+ * Invoked from our compress helper thread, when logging would have exceeded
+ * the specified memory limitation. Compresses the previously stored
+ * entries.
+ */
 static int gz_work(struct tp_work *work)
 {
 	struct iolog_flush_data *data;
@@ -992,6 +1024,12 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Queue work item to compress the existing log entries. We copy the
+ * samples, and reset the log sample count to 0 (so the logging will
+ * continue to use the memory associated with the log). If called with
+ * wait == 1, will not return until the log compression has completed.
+ */
 int iolog_flush(struct io_log *log, int wait)
 {
 	struct tp_data *tdat = log->td->tp_data;
diff --git a/lib/tp.c b/lib/tp.c
index 5111910..ec52db6 100644
--- a/lib/tp.c
+++ b/lib/tp.c
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * Basic workqueue like code, that sets up a thread and allows async
+ * processing of some sort. Could be extended to allow for multiple
+ * worker threads. But right now fio associates one of this per IO
+ * thread, so should be enough to have just a single thread doing the
+ * work.
+ */
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>