On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 1:14 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> 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. 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. And I refuse to have that churn now affect fs/namei.c This had better be done right, or not at all. Linus