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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	io-uring@vger.kernel.org
Cc: joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [LIBURING PATCH] sq_ring_needs_enter: check whether there are sqes when SQPOLL is not enabled
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:18:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <949512f3-9739-5514-2daa-1ee224d85b90@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200413071940.5156-1-xiaoguang.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

On 4/13/20 1:19 AM, Xiaoguang Wang wrote:
> Indeed I'm not sure this patch is necessary, robust applications
> should not call io_uring_submit when there are not sqes to submmit.
> But still try to add this check, I have seen some applications which
> call io_uring_submit(), but there are not sqes to submit.

Hmm, not sure it's worth complicating the submit path for that case.
A high performant application should not call io_uring_submit() if
it didn't queue anything new. Is this a common case you've seen?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-13 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13  7:19 [LIBURING PATCH] sq_ring_needs_enter: check whether there are sqes when SQPOLL is not enabled Xiaoguang Wang
2020-04-13 14:18 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-04-13 15:46   ` Hrvoje Zeba
2020-04-13 15:59     ` Jens Axboe
2020-04-13 22:27   ` Jens Axboe

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