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One thing that really sucks for userspace APIs is if the kernel passes back -ENOMEM/-EAGAIN for resource shortages. The application really has no idea of what to do in those cases. Should it try and reap completions? Probably a good idea. Will it solve the issue? Who knows. This patch adds a simple fallback mechanism if we fail to allocate memory for a request. If we fail allocating memory from the slab for a request, we punt to a pre-allocated request. There's just one of these per io_ring_ctx, but the important part is if we ever return -EBUSY to the application, the applications knows that it can wait for events and make forward progress when events have completed. This is the important part. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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