From: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>,
Dave Chinner <[email protected]>, Hao Xu <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>,
Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>, Clay Harris <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] io_uring: add support for getdents
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:59:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230801-transpirieren-hallo-94682f16962f@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 06:49:45PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 7/31/23 6:47?PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 06:28:02PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> It's also not an absolute thing, like memory allocations are. It's
> >> perfectly fine to grab a mutex under NOWAIT issue. What you should not
> >> do is grab a mutex that someone else can grab while waiting on IO. This
> >> kind of extra context is only available in the code in question, not
> >> generically for eg mutex locking.
> >
> > Is that information documented somewhere? I didn't know that was the
> > rule, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's news to several of the other
> > people on this thread.
>
> I've mentioned it in various threads, but would probably be good to
> write down somewhere if that actually makes more people see it. I'm
> dubious, but since it applies to NOWAIT in general, would be a good
> thing to do regardless. And then at least I could point to that rather
> than have to write up a long description every time.
I've only been aware of this because we talked about it somewhere else.
So adding it as documentation would be great.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-01 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-18 13:21 [PATCH v4 0/5] io_uring getdents Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] fs: split off vfs_getdents function of getdents64 syscall Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/5] vfs_getdents/struct dir_context: add flags field Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] io_uring: add support for getdents Hao Xu
2023-07-19 8:56 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-26 15:00 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 11:51 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-27 14:27 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 15:12 ` Pavel Begunkov
2023-07-27 15:52 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 16:17 ` Pavel Begunkov
2023-07-27 16:28 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 1:58 ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-31 7:34 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-31 7:50 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 7:40 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-30 18:02 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-31 8:18 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 9:31 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-31 1:33 ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-31 8:13 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-31 15:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-31 22:18 ` Dave Chinner
2023-08-01 0:28 ` Jens Axboe
2023-08-01 0:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-01 0:49 ` Jens Axboe
2023-08-01 1:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-01 7:00 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-01 6:59 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2023-08-01 7:17 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-08 4:34 ` Hao Xu
2023-08-08 5:18 ` Hao Xu
2023-08-08 9:33 ` Hao Xu
2023-08-08 22:55 ` Jens Axboe
2023-08-01 18:39 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: add NOWAIT semantics for readdir Hao Xu
2023-07-19 2:35 ` kernel test robot
2023-07-18 13:21 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] disable fixed file for io_uring getdents for now Hao Xu
2023-07-26 14:23 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 12:09 ` Hao Xu
2023-07-19 6:04 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] io_uring getdents Christian Brauner
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