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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>,
	linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] aio: kiocb_cancel()
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:21:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121010232151.GC11468@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121010212051.GD6371@lenny.home.zabbo.net>

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 02:20:51PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> 
> I sympathize, but the reality is that the current infrastructure
> is very bad and no one is using it.
> 
> It's not like we're getting rid of the syscall.  I'll be behaving
> exactly as it does today: returning the error code that indicates that
> cancellation failed because it lost the race with completion.  Every
> caller has to cope with that to use cancel safely.

Yes, I realize it doesn't work today.  But hopefully we'll be able to
reimplement it in a cleaner way.  That's why I said, I hope we don't
give up on the functionality of aio_cancel --- not that I'm against
removing what we currently have.

Cheers,

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-09  6:39 [PATCH 1/5] aio: Kill return value of aio_complete() Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09  6:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] aio: kiocb_cancel() Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 18:26   ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 21:37     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-10 11:03       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-10 21:20         ` Zach Brown
2012-10-10 23:21           ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2012-10-11  2:41         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09  6:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] aio: Rewrite refcounting Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 18:27   ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 22:21     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 22:35       ` Zach Brown
2012-10-10  0:17         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09  6:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] aio: vmap ringbuffer Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 18:29   ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 21:31     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 22:32       ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 22:44         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 22:58           ` Zach Brown
2012-10-10  0:16             ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-10  0:36               ` Zach Brown
2012-10-10  1:09                 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09  6:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] aio: Refactor aio_read_evt, use cmxchg(), fix bug Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 18:37   ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 21:27     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 22:47       ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 22:55         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-09 23:10           ` Zach Brown
2012-10-10  0:06             ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-10  0:26               ` Zach Brown
2012-10-10  0:47                 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-10 21:43                   ` Zach Brown
2012-10-11  2:51                     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-11 16:43                       ` Zach Brown
2012-10-09 18:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] aio: Kill return value of aio_complete() Zach Brown

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