Re: [PATCH 0/2] bio iter improvements

[Kent Overstreet]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 08:20:01AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 12:36:20PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > But this was all right there in the original commit message. And to be
> > honest Christoph, these kinds of drive by "let's focus on the easiest
> > thing to measure" comments are what I expect from you at this point,
> 
> I'm really just curious what the motivation is.  The code does not
> seem much cleaner to me as the user of the API, and it doesn't reduce
> code size.  Maybe there is a good reason for it, but then it needs to
> be very clearly stated and you need to sell people on it.

Yeah, you're not trying to advance the discussion here, you're just
restating your original position. I heard you, and I responded.

> Starting to get personal instead tends to not help to convince your
> reviewers that it's really useful in general.

I know you and others like to talk a lot about what you want as
maintainers and reviewers - but I find that the people who are the
loudest and the most authoritarian in that respect tend not to be the
people who drive discussions forward in productive ways.