On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 09:19:49PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > this series adds support for the IOCB_CMD_POLL operation to poll for the > readyness of file descriptors using the aio subsystem. The API is based > on patches that existed in RHAS2.1 and RHEL3, which means it already is > supported by libaio. To implement the poll support efficiently new > methods to poll are introduced in struct file_operations: get_poll_head > and poll_mask. The first one returns a wait_queue_head to wait on > (lifetime is bound by the file), and the second does a non-blocking > check for the POLL* events. This allows aio poll to work without > any additional context switches, unlike epoll. > > This series sits on top of the aio-fsync series that also includes > support for io_pgetevents. OK, I can live with that, except for one problem - the first patch shouldn't be sitting on top of arseloads of next window fodder. Please, rebase the rest of the series on top of merge of vfs.git#fixes (4faa99965e02) with your aio-fsync.4 and tell me what to pull.
