ipu_policy                   This parameter controls the policy of in-place
                               updates in f2fs. There are five policies:
-                               0: F2FS_IPU_FORCE, 1: F2FS_IPU_SSR,
-                               2: F2FS_IPU_UTIL,  3: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL,
-                               4: F2FS_IPU_FSYNC, 5: F2FS_IPU_DISABLE.
+                               0x01: F2FS_IPU_FORCE, 0x02: F2FS_IPU_SSR,
+                               0x04: F2FS_IPU_UTIL,  0x08: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL,
+                               0x10: F2FS_IPU_FSYNC.
 
  min_ipu_util                 This parameter controls the threshold to trigger
                               in-place-updates. The number indicates percentage
 
        sm_info->ssa_blkaddr = le32_to_cpu(raw_super->ssa_blkaddr);
        sm_info->rec_prefree_segments = sm_info->main_segments *
                                        DEF_RECLAIM_PREFREE_SEGMENTS / 100;
-       sm_info->ipu_policy = F2FS_IPU_FSYNC;
+       sm_info->ipu_policy = 1 << F2FS_IPU_FSYNC;
        sm_info->min_ipu_util = DEF_MIN_IPU_UTIL;
        sm_info->min_fsync_blocks = DEF_MIN_FSYNC_BLOCKS;
 
 
        F2FS_IPU_UTIL,
        F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL,
        F2FS_IPU_FSYNC,
-       F2FS_IPU_DISABLE,
 };
 
 static inline bool need_inplace_update(struct inode *inode)
 {
        struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
+       unsigned int policy = SM_I(sbi)->ipu_policy;
 
        /* IPU can be done only for the user data */
        if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
                return false;
 
-       switch (SM_I(sbi)->ipu_policy) {
-       case F2FS_IPU_FORCE:
+       if (policy & (0x1 << F2FS_IPU_FORCE))
                return true;
-       case F2FS_IPU_SSR:
-               if (need_SSR(sbi))
-                       return true;
-               break;
-       case F2FS_IPU_UTIL:
-               if (utilization(sbi) > SM_I(sbi)->min_ipu_util)
-                       return true;
-               break;
-       case F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL:
-               if (need_SSR(sbi) && utilization(sbi) > SM_I(sbi)->min_ipu_util)
-                       return true;
-               break;
-       case F2FS_IPU_FSYNC:
-               /* this is only set during fdatasync */
-               if (is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(inode), FI_NEED_IPU))
-                       return true;
-               break;
-       case F2FS_IPU_DISABLE:
-               break;
-       }
+       if (policy & (0x1 << F2FS_IPU_SSR) && need_SSR(sbi))
+               return true;
+       if (policy & (0x1 << F2FS_IPU_UTIL) &&
+                       utilization(sbi) > SM_I(sbi)->min_ipu_util)
+               return true;
+       if (policy & (0x1 << F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL) && need_SSR(sbi) &&
+                       utilization(sbi) > SM_I(sbi)->min_ipu_util)
+               return true;
+
+       /* this is only set during fdatasync */
+       if (policy & (0x1 << F2FS_IPU_FSYNC) &&
+                       is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(inode), FI_NEED_IPU))
+               return true;
+
        return false;
 }