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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:12:35 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] aio: move sanity checks and request allocation to
 io_submit_one()
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:48:30PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:08:22AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > 
> > makes for somewhat cleaner control flow in __io_submit_one()
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> I wonder if we should even bother keeping __io_submit_one.  Splitting
> that out was prep work from Jens for something that eventually turned
> into io_uring.

*shrug*

I think it's a bit easier to keep track of control flow - failure exits
are simpler that way.