Re: [PATCH] Revert "bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io"

Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:18:15 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-bcache,org.kernel.vger.linux-block
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 10:51:46AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:34:18AM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Coly and I were just on a call discussing updating my old test suite. I
> > haven't used the bcache tests in > 10 years so they do need to be
> > updated, but the harness and related tooling is well supported both for
> > local development and has full CI.
> > 
> > https://evilpiepirate.org/git/ktest.git/tree/README.md
> > https://evilpiepirate.org/git/ktest.git/tree/tests/bcache/
> 
> I just quickly look at the tests and I got the impression some of those
> tests could be added to blktests. blktests is run by various people,
> thus bcache would get some basic test exposure, e.g. in linux-next.

ktest has features that blktests/fstests don't - it's a full testrunner,
with a CI and test dashboard, with subtest level sharding that runs on
entire cluster.

What would make sense would be for ktest to wrap blktests, like it
already does fstests.