public inbox for [email protected]
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] io_uring: add splice(2) support
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:54:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1251 bytes --]

Am 17.02.20 um 16:40 schrieb Pavel Begunkov:
> On 2/17/2020 6:18 PM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
>> Hi Pavel,
>>
>>> +static int io_splice_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct io_splice* sp = &req->splice;
>>> +	unsigned int valid_flags = SPLICE_F_FD_IN_FIXED | SPLICE_F_ALL;
>>> +	int ret;
>>> +
>>> +	if (req->flags & REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP)
>>> +		return 0;
>>> +
>>> +	sp->file_in = NULL;
>>> +	sp->off_in = READ_ONCE(sqe->off_in);
>>> +	sp->off_out = READ_ONCE(sqe->off);
>>> +	sp->len = READ_ONCE(sqe->len);
>>> +	sp->flags = READ_ONCE(sqe->splice_flags);
>>> +
>>> +	if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(sqe->ioprio) || (sp->flags & ~valid_flags)))
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>
>> Why is ioprio not supported?
> 
> Because there is no way to set it without changing much of splice code.
> It may be added later
> 
> BTW, it seems, only opcodes cares about ioprio are read*/write*.
> recv*() and send*() don't reject it, but never use.

I guess it's more like a hint, so should we just ignore it until
it's passed down? Otherwise applications need to do some logic to
find out if they can pass a value or not.

I'm not sure what's better, but I think it needs to be discussed...

metze



[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-17 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-15 22:05 [PATCH v2 0/3] io_uring: add splice(2) support Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-15 22:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] splice: make do_splice public Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-15 22:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] io_uring: add interface for getting files Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-15 22:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] io_uring: add splice(2) support Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-17 15:18   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-02-17 15:40     ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-17 15:54       ` Stefan Metzmacher [this message]
2020-02-17 15:59         ` Pavel Begunkov

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox