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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> That however doesn't work well for the xfs/IO case where block sizes are
> not known in advance:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190225040904.5557-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/T/#ec3a292c358d05a6b29cc4a9ce3ae6b2faf31a23f

I thought we agreed to use custom slab caches for that?