Re: [GIT PULL] io_uring updates for 5.14-rc1

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 6/30/21 2:18 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 1:14 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>
>> I think you're being very unfair here, last release was pretty
>> uneventful, and of course 5.12 was a bit too exciting with the
>> thread changes, but that was both expected and a necessary evil.
> 
> The last one may have been uneventful, but I really want to keep it
> that way.

We certainly share that goal.

> And the threading changes were an improvement overall, but they were
> by no means the first time io_uring was flaky and had issues. It has
> caused a _lot_ of churn over the years.

In some ways that was almost inevitable with treading new waters, but
I'm hopeful that we're way beyond the hump on that.

I totally agree that it should not be disruptive to core code, and
I'm definitely fine rejecting those bits to avoid having that be the
case. We'll get it sorted.

-- 
Jens Axboe