On 7/15/2022 1:00 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > I agree that it should've been part of the initial series. As mentioned > above, I wasn't much apart of that earlier discussion in the series, and > hence missed that it was missing. And as also mentioned, LSM isn't much > on my radar as nobody I know uses it. There are well over 6 Billion systems deployed in the wild that use LSM. Every Android device. Every Samsung TV, camera and watch. Chromebooks. Data centers. AWS. HPC. Statistically, a system that does not use LSM is extremely rare. The only systems that *don't* use LSM are the ones hand configured by Linux developers for their own use. > This will cause oversights, even > if they are unfortunate. My point is just that no ill intent should be > assumed here. I see no ill intent. And io_uring addresses an important issue. It just needs to work for the majority of Linux systems, not just the few that don't use LSM.
