From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>,
linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aio poll and a new in-kernel poll API V12
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 23:07:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180522220748.GF30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180522113108.25713-1-hch@lst.de>
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this series adds support for the IOCB_CMD_POLL operation to poll for the
> readyness of file descriptors using the aio subsystem. The API is based
> on patches that existed in RHAS2.1 and RHEL3, which means it already is
> supported by libaio. To implement the poll support efficiently new
> methods to poll are introduced in struct file_operations: get_poll_head
> and poll_mask. The first one returns a wait_queue_head to wait on
> (lifetime is bound by the file), and the second does a non-blocking
> check for the POLL* events. This allows aio poll to work without
> any additional context switches, unlike epoll.
I can live with that, modulo bug in #8 (see reply to that one). There's
some nitpicking, but that can be dealt with in followups.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-22 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 11:30 aio poll and a new in-kernel poll API V12 Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 01/31] fs: unexport poll_schedule_timeout Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 02/31] fs: cleanup do_pollfd Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 03/31] fs: update documentation to mention __poll_t and match the code Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 04/31] fs: add new vfs_poll and file_can_poll helpers Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 05/31] fs: introduce new ->get_poll_head and ->poll_mask methods Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 06/31] aio: simplify KIOCB_KEY handling Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 07/31] aio: simplify cancellation Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 08/31] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_POLL Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 22:05 ` Al Viro
2018-05-22 22:05 ` Al Viro
2018-05-23 0:45 ` Al Viro
2018-05-23 0:45 ` Al Viro
2018-05-23 0:49 ` Al Viro
2018-05-23 0:49 ` Al Viro
2018-05-23 1:43 ` YAaioRace (was Re: [PATCH 08/31] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_POLL) Al Viro
2018-05-23 1:43 ` Al Viro
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 09/31] aio: try to complete poll iocbs without context switch Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 10/31] net: refactor socket_poll Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 11/31] net: add support for ->poll_mask in proto_ops Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 12/31] net: remove sock_no_poll Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 13/31] net/tcp: convert to ->poll_mask Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 14/31] net/unix: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 15/31] net: convert datagram_poll users tp ->poll_mask Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 16/31] net/dccp: convert to ->poll_mask Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 17/31] net/atm: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 18/31] net/vmw_vsock: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 19/31] net/tipc: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 20/31] net/sctp: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 21/31] net/bluetooth: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 22/31] net/caif: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 23/31] net/nfc: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 24/31] net/phonet: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 25/31] net/iucv: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 26/31] net/rxrpc: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 27/31] crypto: af_alg: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 28/31] pipe: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 29/31] eventfd: switch " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 30/31] timerfd: convert " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 16:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2018-05-22 16:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2018-05-22 11:31 ` [PATCH 31/31] random: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-22 22:07 ` Al Viro [this message]
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