On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 09:25:21AM -0400, Dan Schatzberg wrote: > Seems like discussion on this patch series has died down. There's been > a concern raised that we could generalize infrastructure across loop, > md, etc. This may be possible, in the future, but it isn't clear to me > how this would look like. I'm inclined to fix the existing issue with > loop devices now (this is a problem we hit at FB) and address > consolidation with other cases if and when those are addressed. > > Jens, you've expressed interest in seeing this series go through the > block tree so I'm interested in your perspective here. Barring any > concrete implementation bugs, would you be okay merging this version? Independ of any higher level issues you need to sort out the spinlock mess I pointed out.