linux-kernel - Re: [patch] aio: remove aio-max-nr and instead use the memlock rlimit to limit the number of pages pinned for the aio completion ring

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Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:40:12 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	linux-aio <linux-aio@...ck.org>, zach.brown@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] aio: remove aio-max-nr and instead use the memlock rlimit
 to limit the number of pages pinned for the aio completion ring

Benjamin LaHaise a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:33:20AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> aio breaks the fget_light() concept too, if process is mono threaded.
> 
> AIO requests cannot use fget_light().  The user space program could very 
> well use the close() syscall to destroy the file descriptor while an io 
> request is in flight, so you cannot avoid the reference counting overhead.

Yes, you are right, AIO doesnt break fget_light()


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