linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 13/14] xfs: add an experimental CONFIG_XFS

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:54:07 +0100
From: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
	mcgrof@...nel.org, gost.dev@...sung.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 
	kbusch@...nel.org, djwong@...nel.org, chandan.babu@...cle.com, p.raghav@...sung.com, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hare@...e.de, willy@...radead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 13/14] xfs: add an experimental CONFIG_XFS_LBS option

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 08:19:23AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:37:12AM +0100, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> > From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
> > 
> > Add an experimental CONFIG_XFS_LBS option to enable LBS support in XFS.
> > Retain the ASSERT for PAGE_SHIFT if CONFIG_XFS_LBS is not enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
> 
> NAK.
> 
> There it no reason for this existing - the same code is run
> regardless of the state of this config variable just with a
> difference in min folio order. All it does is increase the test
> matrix arbitrarily - now we have two kernel configs we have to test
> and there's no good reason for doing that.

I did not have this CONFIG in the first round but I thought it might
help retain the existing behaviour until we deem the feature stable.

But I get your point. So we remove this CONFIG and just have an
experimental warning during mount when people are using the LBS support?

> 
> -Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@...morbit.com