netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 2/4] aio: prefer aio_op op over iter

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Message-ID: <55019C1B.6090909@intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:00:59 -0700
From:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, bcrl@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/4] aio: prefer aio_op op over iter_op

On 03/11/2015 11:48 PM, Al Viro wrote:
>> AIO interface should prefer AIO operations over iter_op
> What the devil for?  read_iter and write_iter *ARE* aio operations, as much
> as soon to be removed aio_read and aio_write.  And yes, those are going to
> be removed very soon.

That's fine. When those will get removed, then as part of the cleanup we can 
merge sock_read_iter() with sock_aio_read() and sock_write_iter()
with sock_aio_write() and call sock_recvmsg()/sock_sendmsg() or 
sock->ops->aio_recvmsg()/sock->ops->aio_sendmsg based on if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb))

> 
> Note that ->read_iter() and ->write_iter() are getting iocb pointer passed
> to them.  It's just that socket instances are not passing it along to
> ->sendmsg/->recvmsg anymore.

and that's the main reason why I have added the sock_aio_read() and sock_aio_write()
I didn't want to mess with the sock_read_iter() and sock_write_iter() for now.

> 
> And why, in name of everything unholy, do your methods get redundant
> total_len argument?  It's iov_iter_count(&msg->msg_iter) (and in iov_iter-net
> I have an inline helper doing that - enough places open-coding that thing).
> If nothing else, ->sendmsg() and ->recvmsg() would benefit from removing
> that argument as well.  I have patches doing that, but iocb removal conflicts
> with them and they need to be rebased to current net/master...

You are right, it's not needed at all. I took the signatures from sendmsg() and
recvmsg() and just added iocb. I will remove them in v2 if you want, or you can
add it to your patches.
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