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From: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Read/Write with meta buffer
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:35:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 4/7/2024 3:00 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 3/22/24 18:50, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
>> This patchset is aimed at getting the feedback on a new io_uring
>> interface that userspace can use to exchange meta buffer along with
>> read/write.
>>
>> Two new opcodes for that: IORING_OP_READ_META and IORING_OP_WRITE_META.
>> The leftover space in the SQE is used to send meta buffer pointer
>> and its length. Patch #2 for this.
> 
> I do remember there were back and forth design discussions about that
> back when some other guy attempted to implement it, but have you tried
> to do it not as a separate opcode?

Did not try that in the first cut, thinking it would help in not 
touching the hot (non-meta) io path. But open to this.

> It reads like all read/write opcodes might benefit from it, and it'd
> be unfortunate to then be adding IORING_OP_READ_META_FIXED and
> multiplicatively all other variants.

Right, that's a good point.

      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-25 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20240322185729epcas5p350c5054b5b519a6aa9d1b35ba3709563@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2024-03-22 18:50 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Read/Write with meta buffer Kanchan Joshi
     [not found]   ` <CGME20240322185731epcas5p20fc525f793a537310f7b3ae5ba5bc75b@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2024-03-22 18:50     ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] io_uring/rw: Get rid of flags field in struct io_rw Kanchan Joshi
2024-03-27 23:30       ` David Wei
2024-03-27 23:32         ` David Wei
     [not found]   ` <CGME20240322185734epcas5p2cd407dac97cd157c1833c4022ea84805@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2024-03-22 18:50     ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] io_uring/rw: support read/write with metadata Kanchan Joshi
     [not found]   ` <CGME20240322185736epcas5p3d0093948e9904e775994bcbe735ea0c5@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2024-03-22 18:50     ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] block: modify bio_integrity_map_user to accept iov_iter as argument Kanchan Joshi
     [not found]   ` <CGME20240322185738epcas5p20e5bd448ce83350eb9e79c929c4a9b2b@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2024-03-22 18:50     ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] block: add support to pass the meta buffer Kanchan Joshi
2024-03-27 23:38   ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Read/Write with " Jens Axboe
2024-03-28 12:03     ` Kanchan Joshi
2024-04-06 21:30   ` Pavel Begunkov
2024-04-25 19:05     ` Kanchan Joshi [this message]

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