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SubjectRe: aio poll and a new in-kernel poll API V12
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this series adds support for the IOCB_CMD_POLL operation to poll for the
> readyness of file descriptors using the aio subsystem. The API is based
> on patches that existed in RHAS2.1 and RHEL3, which means it already is
> supported by libaio. To implement the poll support efficiently new
> methods to poll are introduced in struct file_operations: get_poll_head
> and poll_mask. The first one returns a wait_queue_head to wait on
> (lifetime is bound by the file), and the second does a non-blocking
> check for the POLL* events. This allows aio poll to work without
> any additional context switches, unlike epoll.

I can live with that, modulo bug in #8 (see reply to that one). There's
some nitpicking, but that can be dealt with in followups.

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