Re: aio poll, io_pgetevents and a new in-kernel poll API V4

2018-01-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:10:25PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > I implemented something similar back in December, but did so without > changing the in-kernel poll API. See below for the patch that implements > it. Is changing the in-kernel poll API really desirable given how many > drivers th

Re: aio poll, io_pgetevents and a new in-kernel poll API V4

2018-01-25 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:12:07PM +0100, 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 alread