Re: [PATCH] io_uring: flush overflowed CQ events in the io_uring_poll()
From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Feb 07 2020 - 11:12:44 EST
On 2/7/20 5:18 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> In io_uring_poll() we must flush overflowed CQ events before to
> check if there are CQ events available, to avoid missing events.
>
> We call the io_cqring_events() that checks and flushes any overflow
> and returns the number of CQ events available.
>
> We can avoid taking the 'uring_lock' since the flush is already
> protected by 'completion_lock'.
Thanks, applied. I dropped that last sentence, as a) it doesn't
really matter, and b) we may very well already have it held here
if someone is doing a poll on the io_uring fd itself.
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Jens Axboe