On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:53:00PM -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]> > > This flag informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block > for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered, > or would block while allocating requests while performing > direct I/O. > > Unfortunately, aio_flags is not checked for validity, which would > break existing applications which have it set to anything besides zero > or IOCB_FLAG_RESFD. So, we are using aio_reserved1 and renaming it > to aio_rw_flags. > > IOCB_RW_FLAG_NOWAIT is translated to IOCB_NOWAIT for > iocb->ki_flags.
Please make this a flag in the RWF_* namespace, and as a preparation support the existing RWF_* flags for aio.
