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Suparna Bhattacharya authored
This patch tries be a little fairer across multiple io contexts in handling retries, helping make sure progress happens uniformly across different io contexts (especially if they are acting on independent queues). It splices the ioctx runlist before processing it in __aio_run_iocbs. If new iocbs get added to the ctx in meantime, it queues a fresh workqueue entry instead of handling them righaway, so that other ioctxs' retries get a chance to be processed before the newer entries in the queue. This might make a difference in a situation where retries are getting queued very fast on one ioctx, while the workqueue entry for another ioctx is stuck behind it. I've only seen this occasionally earlier and can't recreate it consistently, but may be worth including anyway. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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