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From: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
	Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>,
	Javier Gonzalez <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove kiocb ki_complete
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:59:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 09/07/2020 16:53, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:49:51PM +0300, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 09/07/2020 16:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:37:59PM +0300, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> Kanchan, could you take a look if you can hide it in req->cflags?
>>>
>>> No, that's not what cflags are for.  And besides, there's only 32 bits
>>> there.
>>
>> It's there to temporarily store cqe->cflags, if a request can't completed
>> right away. And req->{result,user_data,cflags} are basically an CQE inside
>> io_kiocb.
>>
>> So, it is there exactly for that reason, and whatever way it's going to be
>> encoded in an CQE, io_kiocb can fit it. That was my point.
> 
> But it's not going to be encoded in the CQE.  Perhaps you should go back to
> the older thread and read the arguments there.

Ok, if the thread is stopped on the version with indirection. I just looked the
last sent patch.

If so, we can also store offset before adding an CQE and getting by with local
vars only. Just a thought.

-- 
Pavel Begunkov

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-09 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08 22:26 [PATCH 0/2] Remove kiocb ki_complete Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-07-08 22:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: Abstract calling the kiocb completion function Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-07-08 22:37   ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-08 22:40     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-08 22:50       ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-08 22:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: Remove kiocb->ki_complete Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-07-08 22:38   ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-09  3:25   ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-09  5:23   ` kernel test robot
2020-07-08 22:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] Remove kiocb ki_complete Jens Axboe
2020-07-09 10:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-09 11:10   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-09 13:26     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-09 13:32       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-09 13:53         ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-09 13:37       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-09 13:43         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-09 13:49           ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-09 13:53             ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-09 13:59               ` Pavel Begunkov [this message]
2020-07-09 13:55       ` Jens Axboe

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