linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 31/31] aio: implement io

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:11:57 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] aio: implement io_pgetevents

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:16:16PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Hmm, these two new syscall entry points turn into four when we add in
> support for 64-bit time_t, as we'd have to support all combinations of 32/64
> bit aio_context_t and time_t.

At least they'll also replace plain old io_getevents :)

> Would it be better to start this interface out by defining it using a 64-bit
> timeout structure? The downside would be that the user space syscall
> wrappers have to start out with a conversion, if we don't do it, then
> the opposite conversion would have to get added later.

Which structure do you want?  In the end applications using libaio
or even the syscalls directly (like seastar) are a special bread, so
they could probably just deal with whatever structure we want to pass.