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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Zubin Dittia <zubin@tintri.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libaio asynchronous syscall io_getevents blocks on error
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:59:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x4963a9obw7.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47c554d90910201634n68b359c1n501ed5669deb07be@mail.gmail.com> (Zubin Dittia's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:34:04 -0700")

Zubin Dittia <zubin@tintri.com> writes:

> But this does bring up the interesting question of how to know which
> of the I/Os I submitted had an error, and what the error was.  Does it

If io_submit returned N, then the N+1 iocb had an error.

> PS: It does seem a little strange that io_submit returns an error if
> the first IOCB is invalid but not when any of the other IOCBs are
> invalid (this appears to be the case, at least according to the man
> page).

It makes sense that it tells you how many it could successfully submit.
If it can't submit any, you get the error from the first I/O.

Cheers,
Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20 21:58 Zubin Dittia
2009-10-20 22:25 ` Jeff Moyer
2009-10-20 23:34   ` Zubin Dittia
2009-10-20 23:59     ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2009-10-21  0:10       ` Zubin Dittia

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