On 1/25/21 6:28 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 5:06 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Which ones in particular? Outside of the afs one you looked a below, >> the rest should all be of the "need to do IO of some sort" and hence >> -EAGAIN is reasonable. > > Several of them only do the IO conditionally, which was what I reacted > to in at least cifs. > > But I think it's ok to start out doing it unconditionally, and make it > fancier if/when/as people notice or care. Agree, that was the point I was trying to make in the reply. I'd rather start simpler and talk to folks about improving it, looping in the relevant developers for that. I'll leave it as-is for now, modulo the afs one which was definitely just a mistake. -- Jens Axboe
