On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:20:17AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > The history of the gluecode that enables us to walk a bunch of extent > mappings. In the beginning it was the _apply function, but now in our > spectre-weary world, you've switched it to a direct loop to reduce the > number of indirect calls in the hot path by 30-50%. > > As you correctly point out, there's no /code/ shared by the two > implementations, but Dave and I would like to preserve the continuity > from one to the next. > > > > I'll send the updated patches as replies to this series to avoid > > > spamming the list, since I also have a patchset of bugfixes to send out > > > and don't want to overwhelm everyone. > > > > Just as a clear statement: I think this dance is obsfucation and doesn't > > help in any way. But if that's what it takes.. > > I /would/ appreciate it if you'd rvb (or at least ack) patch 31 so I can > get the 5.15 iomap changes finalized next week. Pretty please? :) I think it is a really stupid idea, so certainly no rvb or ack from me. If you feel you want to do it this way go ahead, but I do not in any way approve of it.
