On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 08:45:57PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> > > This flag informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block > for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered > by direct I/O. > > IOCB_FLAG_NONBLOCKING is translated to IOCB_NONBLOCKING for > iocb->ki_flags. Back when we did the rwf non0-blocking flag there were some comments that blocking has a specific meaning in unix, in that we can use poll or select to wait for it. Maybe this should have a different name like NOWAIT?
