On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 10:22:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think you misunderstand. > > Or maybe I do. > > It very much doesn't force sync in this case. It did the *first* part > of it synchronously, but then it wants to continue with that async > part for the rest, and very much do that async completion. > > And that's why it wants to add that "I already did X much of the > work", exactly so that the async completion can report the full end > result.
Could be, and yes in that case it won't work.
