Re: [PATCH 0/2][for-next] cleanup submission path

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sun Oct 27 2019 - 12:32:11 EST


On 10/27/19 9:35 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> A small cleanup of very similar but diverged io_submit_sqes() and
> io_ring_submit()
>
> Pavel Begunkov (2):
> io_uring: handle mm_fault outside of submission
> io_uring: merge io_submit_sqes and io_ring_submit
>
> fs/io_uring.c | 116 ++++++++++++++------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

I like the cleanups here, but one thing that seems off is the
assumption that io_sq_thread() always needs to grab the mm. If
the sqes processed are just READ/WRITE_FIXED, then it never needs
to grab the mm.

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Jens Axboe