On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 08:47:10PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote: > That's debatable. There is no bar for AUTOSEL patches, > for example. And if you don't think that is a major problem I've got a bridge to sell you. I'm still amazed other file system developers haven't followed the XFS steps and only allow fully tested and coherent sets of backports. > Will the three patches I applied have any impact on > non-NFS block operation? The ydo touch the SCSI disk driver fo rexample. > > How much testing did this get with pNFS scsi layouts? > > We have no pNFS tests in our cohort of upstream NFS > tests. How often do you test pNFS SCSI layouts in > stable kernels, and what test suite do you use? I don't test stable kernels, which is why I don't want to see backports to it.