Re: [PATCH] io_uring: reduce latency by reissueing the operation

[Olivier Langlois]

On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 06:48 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/9/21 4:08 PM, Olivier Langlois wrote:
> > It is quite frequent that when an operation fails and returns
> > EAGAIN,
> > the data becomes available between that failure and the call to
> > vfs_poll() done by io_arm_poll_handler().
> > 
> > Detecting the situation and reissuing the operation is much faster
> > than going ahead and push the operation to the io-wq.
> 
> I think this is obviously the right thing to do, but I'm not too
> crazy
> about the 'ret' pointer passed in. We could either add a proper
> return
> type instead of the bool and use that, or put the poll-or-queue-async
> into a helper that then only needs a bool return, and use that return
> value for whether to re-issue or not.
> 
> Care to send an updated variant?
> 
No problem!

It is going to be pleasure to send an updated version with the
requested change!

I will take that opportunity to try out my new patch sending setup ;-)