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

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Thu Mar 28 2024 - 15:15:21 EST


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?

I generally don't hear from users of my code when things are working, I
only expect to hear from people when it's not.