From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] aio: disable retry
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:37:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091025073721.GB6965@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256243157-16667-3-git-send-email-zach.brown@oracle.com>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:25:51PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> This patch ensures that aio ops won't be retried. Code that uses EIOCBRETRY
> will fail to build and modules that reference kick_iocb() won't load.
>
> This simplifies an upcoming patch by ensuring that it doesn't have to support
> aio ops that retry. Further patches could remove much more of fs/aio.c if we
> chose to remove retry-based aio support.
Is there any good reason to keep it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-25 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 20:25 [RFC] loop: issue aio with pages Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 1/8] gadgetfs: use schedule_work() instead of EIOCBRETRY Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/8] aio: disable retry Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/8] aio: add an interface to submit aio from the kernel Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 4/8] aio: add aio_read_pages and aio_write_pages Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 5/8] dio: refactor __blockdev_direct_IO() Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 6/8] dio: add an entry point which takes pages Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: provide aio_read_pages and aio_write_pages Zach Brown
2009-10-22 20:25 ` [PATCH 8/8] loop: use aio to perform io on the underlying file Zach Brown
2009-10-27 16:01 ` Jeff Moyer
2009-10-27 15:49 ` [PATCH 6/8] dio: add an entry point which takes pages Jeff Moyer
2009-10-27 17:50 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-27 15:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] dio: refactor __blockdev_direct_IO() Jeff Moyer
2009-10-26 16:17 ` [PATCH 4/8] aio: add aio_read_pages and aio_write_pages Jeff Moyer
2009-10-26 17:08 ` Jeff Moyer
2009-10-26 22:22 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-26 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/8] aio: add an interface to submit aio from the kernel Jeff Moyer
2009-10-26 22:21 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-25 7:37 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-10-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 2/8] aio: disable retry Zach Brown
2009-10-26 16:00 ` Jeff Moyer
2009-10-26 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/8] gadgetfs: use schedule_work() instead of EIOCBRETRY Jeff Moyer
2009-10-25 7:36 ` [RFC] loop: issue aio with pages Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-26 22:13 ` Zach Brown
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