Re: [PATCH] aio_run_iocb should always retry

Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel,gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 24, 2007, at 11:10 PM, David Brownell wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Zach Brown wrote:
>> So, the sad story is that the cancellation support in fs/aio.c is a
>> mess.  Before we get lost on those details can we talk about simply
>> not allowing cancelation of these usbfs2 aio read requests?  If they
>> guarantee forward progress
>
> Nope ... if there were progress, cancelation wouldn't be needed!

Well, it was worth a shot.

> that notion with filesystem stacks has been a headache.  So there's
> a fair amount of interest in throwing baby out with bathwater.  :(

Nonsense.

- z

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