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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Hannes Reinecke" <hare@suse.com>,
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	"Stefan Bühler" <source@stbuehler.de>,
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	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Hristo Venev" <hristo@venev.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: use __kernel_timespec in timeout ABI
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 17:57:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a19TDk0uo1eu4CcaKHvQCPUJGMjBV8Txtpgvg1ifAgW_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0a5bbe-c20e-d5be-110e-942c604ad2d7@kernel.dk>

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 5:52 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> On 10/1/19 9:49 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 5:38 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:

> > What's wrong with using __kernel_timespec? Just the name?
> > I suppose liburing could add a macro to give it a different name
> > for its users.
>
> Just that it seems I need to make it available through liburing on
> systems that don't have it yet. Not a big deal, though.

Ah, right. I t would not cover the case of building against kernel
headers earlier than linux-5.1 but running on a 5.4+ kernel.

I assumed that that you would require new kernel headers anyway,
but if you have a copy of the io_uring header, that is not necessary.

> One thing that struck me about this approach - we then lose the ability to
> differentiate between "don't want a timed timeout" with ts == NULL, vs
> tv_sec and tv_nsec both being 0.

You could always define a special constant such as
'#define IO_URING_TIMEOUT_NEVER -1ull' if you want to
support for 'never wait if it's not already done' and 'wait indefinitely'.

> I think I'll stuck with that you had and just use __kernel_timespec in
> liburing.

Ok.

       Arnd
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-30 20:20 [PATCH] io_uring: use __kernel_timespec in timeout ABI Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-01 14:09 ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-01 15:38   ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-01 15:49     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-01 15:52       ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-01 15:57         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-10-01 16:02           ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-01 16:07       ` Florian Weimer
2019-10-01 18:08         ` Jens Axboe

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