Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Improve visibility of writeback

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:15:03 -0400 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:40:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:57:45 +0800 Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > This series tries to improve visilibity of writeback.
> > 
> > Well...  why?  Is anyone usefully using the existing instrumentation? 
> > What is to be gained by expanding it further?  What is the case for
> > adding this code?
> > 
> > I don't recall hearing of anyone using the existing debug
> > instrumentation so perhaps we should remove it!
> 
> Remove debug instrumentation!? Surely you just?

Absolutely not.  Any code in the kernel should have ongoing
justification for remaining there.  If no such justification exists,
out it goes.





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