Re: [PATCH 00/10] Misc block layer patches for bcachefs

[Jens Axboe]

On 5/18/18 10:23 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:13:38PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Looked over the series, and looks like both good cleanups and optimizations.
>> If we can get the mempool patch sorted, I can apply this for 4.18.
> 
> FYI, I agree on the actual cleanups and optimization, but we really
> shouldn't add new functions or even just exports without the code
> using them.  I think it is enough if we can collect ACKs on them, but
> there is no point in using them.  Especially as I'd really like to see
> the users for some of them first.

I certainly agree on that in general, but at the same time it makes the
expected submission of bcachefs not having to carry a number of
(essentially) unrelated patches. I'm assuming the likelihood of bcachefs
being submitted soonish is high, hence we won't have exports that don't
have in-kernel users in the longer term.

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Jens Axboe