Now, as we can do async setup without holding an SQE, we can skip doing io_req_defer_prep() for link heads, it will be tried to be executed inline and follows all the rules of the non-linked requests. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 7d54b0abbb82..45f78fd25ce2 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -6820,9 +6820,6 @@ static int io_submit_sqe(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req, ctx->drain_next = 0; } if (req->flags & (REQ_F_LINK | REQ_F_HARDLINK)) { - ret = io_req_defer_prep(req); - if (unlikely(ret)) - req->flags |= REQ_F_FAIL_LINK; link->head = req; link->last = req; } else { -- 2.24.0