On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 09:37:25AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 12/16/18 9:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Any chance you could send the series that just optimize the existing > > aio code and don't need new interface as an initial prep series? > > > > Batching things up should make it a little easier to review, and with > > a little luck those "simple" patches might still make 4.21. Make > > sure to include Al on the series, please. > > Sure, I can do that. So basically all of the optimizations, but none of > the features (like polling)? Would require serious refactoring though, > but not impossible. > > Or do you mean everything up to polled IO for old style aio, just > excluding the new ring interfaces? No, just the various little optimizations and cleanups towards the beginning of the series. Shouldn't really require any refactoring. > > -- > Jens Axboe ---end quoted text---