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This is a leftover from when the rings initially were not free flowing, and hence a test for tail + 1 == head would indicate full. Since we now let them wrap instead of mask them with the size, we need to check if they drift more than the ring size from each other. This fixes a case where we'd overwrite CQ ring entries, if the user failed to reap completions. Both cases would ultimately result in lost completions as the application violated the depth it asked for. The only difference is that before this fix we'd return invalid entries for the overflowed completions, instead of properly flagging it in the cq_ring->overflow variable. Reported-by: Stefan Bühler <source@stbuehler.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.