Commit 8cdf2193 authored by Pavel Begunkov's avatar Pavel Begunkov Committed by Jens Axboe
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io_uring: add comment for drain_next



Draining the middle of a link is tricky, so leave a comment there

Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 980ad263
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@@ -4629,6 +4629,13 @@ err_req:
	if (*link) {
		struct io_kiocb *head = *link;

		/*
		 * Taking sequential execution of a link, draining both sides
		 * of the link also fullfils IOSQE_IO_DRAIN semantics for all
		 * requests in the link. So, it drains the head and the
		 * next after the link request. The last one is done via
		 * drain_next flag to persist the effect across calls.
		 */
		if (sqe_flags & IOSQE_IO_DRAIN) {
			head->flags |= REQ_F_IO_DRAIN;
			ctx->drain_next = 1;