linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] add initial io_uring

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Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2023 10:49:09 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Cc:     io-uring@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] add initial io_uring_cmd support for sockets

On 4/6/23 10:41?AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 07:43:26AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
>> This patchset creates the initial plumbing for a io_uring command for
>> sockets.
>>
>> For now, create two uring commands for sockets, SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCOUTQ
>> and SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCINQ. They are similar to ioctl operations
>> SIOCOUTQ and SIOCINQ. In fact, the code on the protocol side itself is
>> heavily based on the ioctl operations.
> 
> Do you have asynchronous operations in mind for a future patch? The
> io_uring command infrastructure makes more sense for operations that
> return EIOCBQUEUED, otherwise it doesn't have much benefit over ioctl.

Basically nothing returns EIOCBQUEUED, it's mostly sync/poll driven on
the networking side. The primary use case for this is with direct
descriptors, as you can't do get/setsockopt with those. And that means
you'd then need to instantiate a regular descriptor first and then
register it, rather than keep it all direct from the start.

-- 
Jens Axboe