From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.com, hch@infradead.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
sagi@grimberg.me, avi@scylladb.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, willy@infradead.org,
tom.leiming@gmail.com, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] nowait aio: Introduce IOCB_RW_FLAG_NOWAIT
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 23:48:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170404064827.GB21942@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170403185307.6243-2-rgoldwyn@suse.de>
On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:53:00PM -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
>
> This flag informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block
> for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered,
> or would block while allocating requests while performing
> direct I/O.
>
> Unfortunately, aio_flags is not checked for validity, which would
> break existing applications which have it set to anything besides zero
> or IOCB_FLAG_RESFD. So, we are using aio_reserved1 and renaming it
> to aio_rw_flags.
>
> IOCB_RW_FLAG_NOWAIT is translated to IOCB_NOWAIT for
> iocb->ki_flags.
Please make this a flag in the RWF_* namespace, and as a preparation
support the existing RWF_* flags for aio.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-04 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-03 18:52 [PATCH 0/8 v4] No wait AIO Goldwyn Rodrigues
[not found] ` <20170403185307.6243-1-rgoldwyn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] nowait aio: Introduce IOCB_RW_FLAG_NOWAIT Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-04 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] nowait aio: btrfs Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/8] nowait aio: Return if cannot get hold of i_rwsem Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] nowait aio: return if direct write will trigger writeback Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] nowait-aio: Introduce IOMAP_NOWAIT Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] nowait aio: return on congested block device Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-04 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] nowait aio: ext4 Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-04 7:58 ` Jan Kara
2017-04-04 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-04 18:41 ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-10 7:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20170410074539.GA18250-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-10 12:37 ` Jan Kara
2017-04-10 14:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 15:13 ` Jan Kara
2017-04-03 18:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] nowait aio: xfs Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-04 6:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20170404065211.GD21942-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-06 22:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-04-07 11:34 ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-04-07 15:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-15 21:50 [PATCH 0/8 v3] No wait AIO Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-03-15 21:51 ` [PATCH 1/8] nowait aio: Introduce IOCB_RW_FLAG_NOWAIT Goldwyn Rodrigues
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