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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: __io_file_supports_nowait for regular files
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:23:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 09:59:40AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 7/21/22 9:37 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > is there any good reason __io_file_supports_nowait checks the
> > blk_queue_nowait flag for regular files?  The FMODE_NOWAIT is set
> > for regular files that support nowait I/O, and should be all that
> > is needed.  Even with a block device that does not nonblocking
> > I/O some thing like reading from the page cache can be done
> > non-blocking.
> 
> Nope, we can probably kill that check then. Want to send a patch?

What would be a good way to verify it doesn't break any strange
assumptions?  I kinda don't fell too comfortable touching io_uring
guts.

> 
> -- 
> Jens Axboe
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-21 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21 15:37 __io_file_supports_nowait for regular files Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-21 15:59 ` Jens Axboe
2022-07-21 16:23   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-07-21 18:46     ` Jens Axboe
2022-07-22 15:59       ` Christoph Hellwig

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