[PATCH] fs:aio: Remove TODO comment suggesting hash or array usage in io_cancel()

The comment suggests a hash or array approach to
store the active requests. Currently it iterates
through all the active requests and when found
deletes the requested request, in the linked list.
However io_cancel() isn’t a frequently used operation,
and optimizing it wouldn’t bring a substantial benefit
to real users and the increased complexity of maintaining
a hashtable for this would be significant and will slow
down other operation. Therefore remove this TODO 
to avoid people spending time improving this.

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Anees <[email protected]>
---
 fs/aio.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index e8920178b50f..72e3970f4225 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -2191,7 +2191,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_cancel, aio_context_t, ctx_id, struct iocb __user *, iocb,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
-	/* TODO: use a hash or array, this sucks. */
 	list_for_each_entry(kiocb, &ctx->active_reqs, ki_list) {
 		if (kiocb->ki_res.obj == obj) {
 			ret = kiocb->ki_cancel(&kiocb->rw);
-- 
2.47.0


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