Re: [PATCH] io-wq: expose IO_WQ_ACCT_* enumeration items to UAPI

From: Dmitry V. Levin
Date: Sun Sep 12 2021 - 18:24:41 EST


On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:29:41PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/12/21 6:24 AM, Eugene Syromiatnikov wrote:
> > These are used to index aargument of IORING_REGISTER_IOWQ_MAX_WORKERS
> > io_uring_register command, so they are to be exposed in UAPI.
>
> Not sure that's necessary, as it's really just a boolean values - is
> the worker type bounded or not. That said, not against making it
> available for userspace, but definitely not IO_WQ_ACCT_NR. It
> should probably just go in liburing, I guess.

If IO_WQ_ACCT_* were just boolean values, no enum would have been
introduced in the first place. What's the benefit of hiding
the API in the implementation, or burying it inside liburing?


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