From: Hao Xu <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, io-uring <[email protected]>,
Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Question about sendfile
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:50:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
在 2021/7/7 下午10:16, Pavel Begunkov 写道:
> On 7/3/21 11:47 AM, Hao Xu wrote:
>> Hi Pavel,
>> I found this mail about sendfile in the maillist, may I ask why it's not
>> good to have one pipe each for a io-wq thread.
>> https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/[email protected]/
>
> IIRC, it's one page allocated for each such task, which is bearable but
> don't like yet another chunk of uncontrollable implicit state. If there
> not a bunch of active workers, IFAIK there is no way to force them to
> drop their pipes.
>
> I also don't remember the restrictions on the sendfile and what's with
> the eternal question of "what to do if the write part of sendfile has
> failed".
Hi Pavel,
Could you explain this question a little bit.., is there any special
concern? What I thought is sendfile does what it does,when it fails,
it will return -1 and errno is set appropriately.
>
> Though, workers are now much more alike to user threads, so there
> should be less of concern. And even though my gut feeling don't like
> them, it may actually be useful. Do you have a good use case where
> explicit pipes don't work well?
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-26 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-03 10:47 Question about sendfile Hao Xu
2021-07-07 14:16 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-07-14 3:50 ` Hao Xu
2021-11-26 8:50 ` Hao Xu [this message]
2021-12-03 16:03 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-12-05 15:21 ` Hao Xu
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