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Jens Axboe 561fb04a6a io_uring: replace workqueue usage with io-wq
Drop various work-arounds we have for workqueues:

- We no longer need the async_list for tracking sequential IO.

- We don't have to maintain our own mm tracking/setting.

- We don't need a separate workqueue for buffered writes. This didn't
  even work that well to begin with, as it was suboptimal for multiple
  buffered writers on multiple files.

- We can properly cancel pending interruptible work. This fixes
  deadlocks with particularly socket IO, where we cannot cancel them
  when the io_uring is closed. Hence the ring will wait forever for
  these requests to complete, which may never happen. This is different
  from disk IO where we know requests will complete in a finite amount
  of time.

- Due to being able to cancel work interruptible work that is already
  running, we can implement file table support for work. We need that
  for supporting system calls that add to a process file table.

- It gets us one step closer to adding async support for any system
  call.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-10-29 12:43:06 -06:00
arch um-ubd: Entrust re-queue to the upper layers 2019-10-29 10:07:41 -06:00
block blk-rq-qos: fix first node deletion of rq_qos_del() 2019-10-15 10:13:13 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation ARM: SoC fixes 2019-10-25 16:00:47 -04:00
drivers nvme-multipath: remove unused groups_only mode in ana log 2019-10-29 08:55:00 -06:00
fs io_uring: replace workqueue usage with io-wq 2019-10-29 12:43:06 -06:00
include io_uring: replace workqueue usage with io-wq 2019-10-29 12:43:06 -06:00
init io_uring: replace workqueue usage with io-wq 2019-10-29 12:43:06 -06:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring 2019-10-29 12:43:00 -06:00
lib lib/vdso: Make clock_getres() POSIX compliant again 2019-10-23 14:48:23 +02:00
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virt KVM/arm fixes for 5.4, take #2 2019-10-22 13:31:29 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.