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

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Sun Oct 27 2019 - 12:45:00 EST


On 27/10/2019 19:32, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.
> Yeah, we removed it to fix bugs. Personally, I think it would be
clearer to do lazy grabbing conditionally, rather than have two
functions. And in this case it's easier to do after merging.

Do you prefer to return it back first?

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Yours sincerely,
Pavel Begunkov

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