On 2/16/23 9:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 09:12:33AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
On 2/16/23 9:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+
But why is this a stable candidate?
Only because the other patches depend on it.
But none of those is stable material either as I can tell. It's a fairly simple and nice to have enhancement, but not really a grave bug or regression fix.
It causes a big perf regression when swapping between IO backends, and even caused confusion for that initial reporter. So while it's not a very important crash fix, I do think shoving into stable is prudent.