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Decouple from task_work running, and cap the number of entries we process at the time. If we exceed that number, push remaining entries to a retry list that we'll process first next time. We cap the number of entries to process at 8, which is fairly random. We just want to get enough per-ctx batching here, while not processing endlessly. Since we manually run PF_IO_WORKER related task_work anyway as the task never exits to userspace, with this we no longer need to add an actual task_work item to the per-process list. 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.