linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] /dev/mem: nowait zero/null ops

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Date:   Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:15:27 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     io-uring@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] /dev/mem: nowait zero/null ops

On 9/8/21 1:10 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> Make read_iter_zero() to honor IOCB_NOWAIT, so /dev/zero can be
> advertised as FMODE_NOWAIT. It's useful for io_uring, which needs it to
> apply certain optimisations when doing I/O against the device.
> 
> Set FMODE_NOWAIT for /dev/null as well, it never waits and therefore
> trivially meets the criteria.

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>

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Jens Axboe