On 8/20/23 12:18 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 08:11:04AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> +static int io_get_single_event(struct io_event *event)
>> +{
>> + int ret;
>> +
>> + do {
>> + /*
>> + * We can get -EINTR if competing with io_uring using signal
>> + * based notifications. For that case, just retry the wait.
>> + */
>> + ret = io_getevents(io_ctx, 1, 1, event, NULL);
>> + if (ret != -EINTR)
>> + break;
>> + } while (1);
>> +
>> + return ret;
>> +}
>
> Is there a reason to prefer this style over:
>
> do {
> ret = io_getevents(io_ctx, 1, 1, event, NULL);
> } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
>
> (we need to check errno, here, right? Or is io_getevents() special
> somehow?)
Honestly, don't really care about the style, mostly cared about getting
a bug fixed. io_getevents() returns number of events claimed, or -errno.
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Jens Axboe
