On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 05:21:36PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > +static inline void bio_set_polled_async(struct bio *bio, struct kiocb *kiocb) > +{ > + bio->bi_opf |= REQ_POLLED | REQ_NOWAIT; > +} As mentioned last time I'm a little skeptical of this optimization. But if you an Jens thing it is worth it just drop this helper and assign the flags directly.