On 11/19/19 1:32 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > Always mark requests with allocated sqe and deallocate it in > __io_free_req(). It's easier to follow and doesn't add edge cases. I did consider doing this, and it is tempting as a cleanup, but it also moves it into the fastpath instead of keeping it in the slow link fail path. Any allocated sqe is normally freed when the work is processed, which is generally also a better path to do it in as we know we're not under locks/irq disabled. -- Jens Axboe
