On 12/16/18 9:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. OK, that'd be trivial enough. I'll do that and send it out separately. -- Jens Axboe