*lost the cover-letter, but here we go* The main idea is to optimise code like the following by directly copying sqe flags: if (sqe_flags & IOSQE_IO_HARDLINK) req->flags |= REQ_F_HARDLINK; The first patch is a minor cleanup, and the second one do the trick. No functional changes. The other thing to consider is whether to use such flags as REQ_F_LINK = IOSQE_IO_LINK, or directly use IOSQE_IO_LINK instead. Pavel Begunkov (2): io_uring: remove REQ_F_IO_DRAINED io_uring: optimise sqe-to-req flags translation fs/io_uring.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) -- 2.24.0