linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: Avoid polling configuration errors

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:07:54 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, hexue <xue01.he@...sung.com>,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Avoid polling configuration errors

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 02:53:27PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > So we need to ensure REQ_POLLED doesn't even get set for any
> > other I/O.
> 
> We happily allow polled IO for async polled IO, even if the destination
> queue isn't polled (or it doesn't exist). This is different than the old
> sync polled support.

Yes, and for that to work we can't start returning -EOPNOTSUPP as in
this patch, as BLK_QC_T_NONE an be cleared for all kinds of reasons.

So if we want some kind of error handling that people don't even
bother to poll for devices where it is not supported we need that
check much earlier (probably in io_uring).