From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Hao Xu <hao.xu@linux.dev>,
io-uring@vger.kernel.org,
Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>,
Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>, Clay Harris <bugs@claycon.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] io_uring: add support for getdents
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 01:47:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZMhWI/2UIFAb3vR7@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22630618-40fc-5668-078d-6cefcb2e4962@kernel.dk>
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 06:28:02PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It's also not an absolute thing, like memory allocations are. It's
> perfectly fine to grab a mutex under NOWAIT issue. What you should not
> do is grab a mutex that someone else can grab while waiting on IO. This
> kind of extra context is only available in the code in question, not
> generically for eg mutex locking.
Is that information documented somewhere? I didn't know that was the
rule, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's news to several of the other
people on this thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-01 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-18 13:21 [PATCH v4 0/5] io_uring getdents Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] fs: split off vfs_getdents function of getdents64 syscall Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/5] vfs_getdents/struct dir_context: add flags field Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] io_uring: add support for getdents Hao Xu
2023-07-19 8:56 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-26 15:00 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 11:51 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-27 14:27 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 15:12 ` Pavel Begunkov
2023-07-27 15:52 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 16:17 ` Pavel Begunkov
2023-07-27 16:28 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 1:58 ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-31 7:34 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-31 7:50 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 7:40 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-30 18:02 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-31 8:18 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 9:31 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-31 1:33 ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-31 8:13 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 15:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-31 22:18 ` Dave Chinner
2023-08-01 0:28 ` Jens Axboe
2023-08-01 0:47 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-08-01 0:49 ` Jens Axboe
2023-08-01 1:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-01 7:00 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-01 6:59 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-01 7:17 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-08 4:34 ` Hao Xu
2023-08-08 5:18 ` Hao Xu
2023-08-08 9:33 ` Hao Xu
2023-08-08 22:55 ` Jens Axboe
2023-08-01 18:39 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: add NOWAIT semantics for readdir Hao Xu
2023-07-19 2:35 ` kernel test robot
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] disable fixed file for io_uring getdents for now Hao Xu
2023-07-26 14:23 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 12:09 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-19 6:04 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] io_uring getdents Christian Brauner
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