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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>, Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] io_uring: remove req cancel in ->flush()
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:01:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 10/22/20 11:52 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Every close(io_uring) causes cancellation of all inflight requests
>> carrying ->files. That's not nice but was neccessary up until recently.
>> Now task->files removal is handled in the core code, so that part of
>> flush can be removed.
> 
> I don't understand the motivation for this patch.  Why would an
> application close the io_uring fd with outstanding requests?

It normally wouldn't, of course. It's important to understand that this
triggers for _any_ close. So if the app did a dup+close, then it'd
still trigger.

The point is that previously we _had_ to cancel requests that had
->files assigned, due to using a weak reference. Now we no longer have
to, so the point is to just get rid of that previous oddity.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-22 15:38 [PATCH v2] io_uring: remove req cancel in ->flush() Pavel Begunkov
2020-10-22 17:52 ` Jeff Moyer
2020-10-22 18:01   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-10-22 18:49     ` Jeff Moyer
2020-10-22 20:39 ` Jens Axboe

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