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Pavel Begunkov authored
Emitting a CQE is expensive from the kernel perspective. Often, it's also not convenient for the userspace, spends some cycles on processing and just complicates the logic. A similar problems goes for linked requests, where we post an CQE for each request in the link. Introduce a new flags, IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS, trying to help with it. When set and a request completed successfully, it won't generate a CQE. When fails, it produces an CQE, but all following linked requests will be CQE-less, regardless whether they have IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS or not. The notion of "fail" is the same as for link failing-cancellation, where it's opcode dependent, and _usually_ result >= 0 is a success, but not always. Linked timeouts are a bit special. When the requests it's linked to was not attempted to be executed, e.g. failing linked requests, it follows the description above. Otherwise, whether a linked timeout will post a completion or not solely depends on IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS of that linked timeout request. Linked timeout never "fail" during execution, so for them it's unconditional. It's expected for users to not really care about the result of it but rely solely on the result of the master request. Another reason for such a treatment is that it's racy, and the timeout callback may be running awhile the master request posts its completion. use case 1: If one doesn't care about results of some requests, e.g. normal timeouts, just set IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS. Error result will still be posted and need to be handled. use case 2: Set IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS for all requests of a link but the last, and it'll post a completion only for the last one if everything goes right, otherwise there will be one only one CQE for the first failed request. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0220fbe06f7cf99e6fc71b4297bb1cb6c0e89c2c.1636559119.git.asml.silence@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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