| Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:17:08 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/9] aio: simplify cancellation |
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:32:28AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > With the current aio code there is no need for the magic KIOCB_CANCELLED > value, as a cancelation just kicks the driver to queue the completion > ASAP, with all actual completion handling done in another thread. Given > that both the completion path and cancelation take the context lock there > is no need for magic cmpxchg loops either. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> > Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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