Re: [PATCH 0/7] block layer patches for bcachefs

[Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/4/23 5:38?PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:50:55AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> Sorry typo, I meant text. Just checked stack and it looks identical, but
> >> things like blk-map grows ~6% more text, and bio ~3%. Didn't check all
> >> of them, but at least those two are consistent across x86-64 and
> >> aarch64. Ditto on the data front. Need to take a closer look at where
> >> exactly that is coming from, and what that looks like.
> > 
> > A good chunk of that is because I added warnings and assertions for
> > e.g. running past the end of the bvec array. These bugs are rare and
> > shouldn't happen with normal iterator usage (e.g. the bio_for_each_*
> > macros), but I'd like to keep them as a debug mode thing.
> > 
> > But we don't yet have CONFIG_BLOCK_DEBUG - perhaps we should.
> 
> Let's split those out then, especially as we don't have a BLOCK_DEBUG
> option right now.

Already did that; there's a patch in the branch that adds
CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG with the new assertions.

> Cn you resend just the iterator changes in their current form? The
> various re-exports are a separate discussion, I think we should focus on
> the iterator bits first.

They're up in that branch with the iterator changes first now; I'll mail
them out too.