Re: [PATCH 9/9] io_uring: pass submission ref to async

[Pavel Begunkov]

On 3/2/2020 12:39 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 01/03/2020 19:18, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> Currenlty, every async work handler accepts a submission reference,
>> which it should put. Also there is a reference grabbed in io_get_work()
>> and dropped in io_put_work(). This patch merge them together.
>>
>> - So, ownership of the submission reference passed to io-wq, and it'll
>> be put in io_put_work().
>> - io_get_put() doesn't take a ref now and so deleted.
>> - async handlers don't put the submission ref anymore.
>> - make cancellation bits of io-wq to call {get,put}_work() handlers
> 
> Hmm, it makes them more like {init,fini}_work() and unbalanced/unpaired. May be
> no a desirable thing.

Any objections against replacing {get,put}_work() with
io_finilise_work()? It will be called once and only once, and a work
must not go away until it happened. It will be enough for now, but not
sure whether you have some plans for this get/put pinning.

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Pavel Begunkov