blktests failures with v6.12-rc1 kernel

[Bart Van Assche]

On 10/4/24 6:41 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> That seems over-engineered. Seems to me that either these things should
> share a slab cache (why do they need one each, if they are the same
> sized object?!).

The size of two of the three slab caches is variable.

> And if they really do need one, surely something ala:
> 
> static atomic_long_t slab_index;
> 
> sprintf(slab_name, "foo-%ld", atomic_inc_return(&slab_index));
> 
> would be all you need.

A 32-bit counter wraps around after about 4 billion iterations, isn't
it?

Thanks,

Bart.