Am Freitag, 13. Januar 2017, 19:25:39 CET schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote: > > > If you're making a single call, what guarantees the ordering? > > > > Technically, io_submit is the syscall that triggers the recvmsg. Are you > > saying that this syscall does not maintain ordering? At least the man page > > does not add any hints that it would not (unlike the lio_list man page). > > The code certainly does. But my point is that you can do the > same thing using the current API. Just make your list be pairs > of write/read and it should work. How shall these pairs come into existence? The read/write system calls may come at unspecified times with potentially dissimilar buffer lengths. Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
