On 6/30/21 2:18 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. 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
