/* the dedicated workstation for compression */
        struct radix_tree_root workstn_tree;
 
+       /* threshold for decompression synchronously */
+       unsigned int max_sync_decompress_pages;
+
 #ifdef EROFS_FS_HAS_MANAGED_CACHE
        struct inode *managed_cache;
 #endif
        struct page *page);
 #endif
 
+#define DEFAULT_MAX_SYNC_DECOMPRESS_PAGES      3
+
+static inline bool __should_decompress_synchronously(struct erofs_sb_info *sbi,
+                                                    unsigned int nr)
+{
+       return nr <= sbi->max_sync_decompress_pages;
+}
+
 #endif
 
 /* we strictly follow PAGE_SIZE and no buffer head yet */
 
 
 static void default_options(struct erofs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
+       /* set up some FS parameters */
+#ifdef CONFIG_EROFS_FS_ZIP
+       sbi->max_sync_decompress_pages = DEFAULT_MAX_SYNC_DECOMPRESS_PAGES;
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_EROFS_FS_XATTR
        set_opt(sbi, XATTR_USER);
 #endif
 
        return 0;
 }
 
-static inline int __z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_readpages(
-       struct file *filp,
-       struct address_space *mapping,
-       struct list_head *pages, unsigned int nr_pages, bool sync)
+static int z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_readpages(struct file *filp,
+                                             struct address_space *mapping,
+                                             struct list_head *pages,
+                                             unsigned int nr_pages)
 {
        struct inode *const inode = mapping->host;
+       struct erofs_sb_info *const sbi = EROFS_I_SB(inode);
+       const bool sync = __should_decompress_synchronously(sbi, nr_pages);
 
        struct z_erofs_vle_frontend f = VLE_FRONTEND_INIT(inode);
        gfp_t gfp = mapping_gfp_constraint(mapping, GFP_KERNEL);
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_readpages(
-       struct file *filp,
-       struct address_space *mapping,
-       struct list_head *pages, unsigned int nr_pages)
-{
-       return __z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_readpages(filp,
-               mapping, pages, nr_pages,
-               nr_pages < 4 /* sync */);
-}
-
 const struct address_space_operations z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_aops = {
        .readpage = z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_readpage,
        .readpages = z_erofs_vle_normalaccess_readpages,