On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ananiev, Leonid I wrote: > > > >Where is kiocbSetPgBusy() defined, > It is defined in include/linux/aio.h (introduced in [PATCH 1/3]) > > and where in the documentation is it explained? > I will add a comment for kiocbSetPgBusy()in aio.h. > > > For that matter, what is the reason for changing the return value at > all? > EIORETRY is not IO return value at all. It is processing stage. > It conflicts with IO return value. That is why a flag in iocb is used. > It should be noted that loop but not EIOCBRETRY was used for vector IO > (mm/filemap.c)
Okay. But I don't like the name. "kiocbSetPgBusy" might be meaningful to people who understand fs/aio.c, but it isn't meaningful to other people. Could you add this to aio.h: #define mark_iocb_not_complete(iocb) kiocbSetPgBusy(iocb) That would be a lot easier to understand. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
