From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
netfs@lists.linux.dev, v9fs@lists.linux.dev,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfs: Fix setting of BDP_ASYNC from iocb flags
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 21:05:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <322229.1716321947@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110d2995-f473-4781-9412-30f7f96858dd@kernel.dk>
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> On 5/21/24 9:54 AM, David Howells wrote:
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> >
> >> However, I'll note that BDP_ASYNC is horribly named, it should be
> >> BDP_NOWAIT instead. But that's a separate thing, fix looks correct
> >> as-is.
> >
> > I thought IOCB_NOWAIT was related to RWF_NOWAIT, but apparently not from the
> > code.
>
> It is, something submitted with RWF_NOWAIT should have IOCB_NOWAIT set.
> But RWF_NOWAIT isn't the sole user of IOCB_NOWAIT, and no assumptions
> should be made about whether something is sync or async based on whether
> or not RWF_NOWAIT is set. Those aren't related other than _some_ proper
> async IO will have IOCB_NOWAIT set, and others will not.
Are you sure? RWF_NOWAIT seems to set IOCB_NOIO.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-21 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-21 15:49 [PATCH] netfs: Fix setting of BDP_ASYNC from iocb flags David Howells
2024-05-21 15:52 ` Jens Axboe
2024-05-21 15:54 ` David Howells
2024-05-21 16:04 ` Jens Axboe
2024-05-21 20:05 ` David Howells [this message]
2024-05-21 20:09 ` Jens Axboe
2024-05-22 7:14 ` Christian Brauner
2024-05-24 15:33 ` Steve French
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