linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] mm: introduce put_user

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Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:03:19 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, john.hubbard@...il.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Benvenuti <benve@...co.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 09:11:13AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 03:39:33AM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > IMHO I don't think that the copy_file_range() is going to carry us through the
> > next wave of user performance requirements.  RDMA, while the first, is not the
> > only technology which is looking to have direct access to files.  XDP is
> > another.[1]
> 
> Sure, all I doing here was demonstrating that people have been
> trying to get local direct access to file mappings to DMA directly
> into them for a long time. Direct Io games like these are now
> largely unnecessary because we now have much better APIs to do
> zero-copy data transfer between files (which can do hardware offload
> if it is available!).

And that is just the file to file case.  There are tons of other
users of get_user_pages, including various drivers that do large
amounts of I/O like video capture.  For them it makes tons of sense
to transfer directly to/from a mmap()ed file.