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* [PATCH v4 00/25] fuse/io-uring: add kernel-managed buffer rings and zero-copy
@ 2026-01-16 23:30 Joanne Koong
  2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 01/25] io_uring/kbuf: refactor io_buf_pbuf_register() logic into generic helpers Joanne Koong
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From: Joanne Koong @ 2026-01-16 23:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: axboe, miklos
  Cc: bschubert, csander, krisman, io-uring, asml.silence, xiaobing.li,
	safinaskar, linux-fsdevel

This series adds buffer ring and zero-copy capabilities to fuse over io-uring.
This requires adding a new kernel-managed buf (kmbuf) ring type to io-uring
where the buffers are provided and managed by the kernel instead of by
userspace.

On the io-uring side, the kmbuf interface is basically identical to pbufs.
They differ mostly in how the memory region is set up and whether it is
userspace or kernel that recycles back the buffer. Internally, the
IOBL_KERNEL_MANAGED flag is used to mark the buffer ring as kernel-managed. 

The zero-copy work builds on top of the infrastructure added for
kernel-managed buffer rings (the bulk of which is in patch 19: "fuse: add
io-uring kernel-managed buffer ring") and that informs some of the design
choices for how fuse uses the kernel-managed buffer ring without zero-copy.

There was a previous submission for supporting registered buffers in fuse [1]
but that was abandoned in favor of using kernel-managed buffer rings, which,
once incremental buffer consumption is added in a later patchset, gives
significant memory usage advantages in allowing the full buffer capacity to be
utilized across multiple requests, as well as offers more flexibility for
future additions. As well, it also makes the userspace side setup simpler.
The relevant refactoring fuse patches from the previous submission are carried
over into this one.

Benchmarks for zero-copy (patch 24) show approximately the following
differences in throughput for bs=1M:

direct randreads: ~20% increase (~2100 MB/s -> ~2600 MB/s)
buffered randreads: ~25% increase (~1900 MB/s -> 2400 MB/s)
direct randwrites: no difference (~750 MB/s)
buffered randwrites: ~10% increase (950 MB/s -> 1050 MB/s)

The benchmark was run using fio on the passthrough_hp server:
fio --name=test_run --ioengine=sync --rw=rand{read,write} --bs=1M
--size=1G --numjobs=2 --ramp_time=30 --group_reporting=1

This series is on top of commit b71e635feefc in the io-uring tree.

The libfuse changes can be found in [2]. This has a dependency on the liburing
changes in [3]. To test the server, you can run it with:
sudo ~/libfuse/build/example/passthrough_hp ~/src ~/mounts/tmp
--nopassthrough -o io_uring_zero_copy -o io_uring_q_depth=8

Thanks,
Joanne 

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20251027222808.2332692-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com/
[2] https://github.com/joannekoong/libfuse/tree/zero_copy
[3] https://github.com/joannekoong/liburing/tree/kmbuf

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20251223003522.3055912-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com/
v3 -> v4:
* Get rid of likely()s and get rid of going through cmd interface layer (Gabriel)
* Fix io_uring_cmd_fixed_index_get() to return back the node pointer (Caleb)
* Add documentation for io_buffer_register_bvec (Caleb)
* Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() for io_buffer_unregister() call (Caleb)

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20251218083319.3485503-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com/
v2 -> v3:
* fix casting between void * and u64 for 32-bit architectures (kernel test robot)
* add newline for documentation bullet points (kernel test robot)
* fix unrecognized "boolean" (kernel test robot), switch it to a flag (me)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20251203003526.2889477-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com/
v1 -> v2:
* drop fuse buffer cleanup on ring death, which makes things a lot simpler (Jens)
  - this drops a lot of things (eg needing ring_ctx tracking, needing callback
    for ring death, etc)
* drop fixed buffer pinning altogether and just do lookup every time (Jens)
  (didn't significantly affect the benchmark results seen)
* fix spelling mistake in docs (Askar)
* use -EALREADY for pinning already pinned bufring, return PTR_ERR for
   registration instead of err, move initializations to outside locks (Caleb)
* drop fuse patches for zero-ed out headers (me)

Joanne Koong (25):
  io_uring/kbuf: refactor io_buf_pbuf_register() logic into generic
    helpers
  io_uring/kbuf: rename io_unregister_pbuf_ring() to
    io_unregister_buf_ring()
  io_uring/kbuf: add support for kernel-managed buffer rings
  io_uring/kbuf: add mmap support for kernel-managed buffer rings
  io_uring/kbuf: support kernel-managed buffer rings in buffer selection
  io_uring/kbuf: add buffer ring pinning/unpinning
  io_uring/kbuf: add recycling for kernel managed buffer rings
  io_uring: add io_uring_fixed_index_get() and
    io_uring_fixed_index_put()
  io_uring/kbuf: add io_uring_is_kmbuf_ring()
  io_uring/kbuf: export io_ring_buffer_select()
  io_uring/kbuf: return buffer id in buffer selection
  io_uring/cmd: set selected buffer index in __io_uring_cmd_done()
  fuse: refactor io-uring logic for getting next fuse request
  fuse: refactor io-uring header copying to ring
  fuse: refactor io-uring header copying from ring
  fuse: use enum types for header copying
  fuse: refactor setting up copy state for payload copying
  fuse: support buffer copying for kernel addresses
  fuse: add io-uring kernel-managed buffer ring
  io_uring/rsrc: rename
    io_buffer_register_bvec()/io_buffer_unregister_bvec()
  io_uring/rsrc: split io_buffer_register_request() logic
  io_uring/rsrc: Allow buffer release callback to be optional
  io_uring/rsrc: add io_buffer_register_bvec()
  fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring
  docs: fuse: add io-uring bufring and zero-copy documentation

 Documentation/block/ublk.rst                  |  14 +-
 .../filesystems/fuse/fuse-io-uring.rst        |  59 +-
 drivers/block/ublk_drv.c                      |  18 +-
 fs/fuse/dev.c                                 |  30 +-
 fs/fuse/dev_uring.c                           | 692 ++++++++++++++----
 fs/fuse/dev_uring_i.h                         |  42 +-
 fs/fuse/fuse_dev_i.h                          |   8 +-
 include/linux/io_uring/buf.h                  |  25 +
 include/linux/io_uring/cmd.h                  |  97 ++-
 include/linux/io_uring_types.h                |  10 +-
 include/uapi/linux/fuse.h                     |  17 +-
 include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h                 |  17 +-
 io_uring/kbuf.c                               | 355 +++++++--
 io_uring/kbuf.h                               |  19 +-
 io_uring/memmap.c                             | 117 ++-
 io_uring/memmap.h                             |   4 +
 io_uring/register.c                           |   9 +-
 io_uring/rsrc.c                               | 183 ++++-
 io_uring/uring_cmd.c                          |   6 +-
 19 files changed, 1447 insertions(+), 275 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/io_uring/buf.h

-- 
2.47.3


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2026-01-16 23:30 [PATCH v4 00/25] fuse/io-uring: add kernel-managed buffer rings and zero-copy Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 01/25] io_uring/kbuf: refactor io_buf_pbuf_register() logic into generic helpers Joanne Koong
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2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 05/25] io_uring/kbuf: support kernel-managed buffer rings in buffer selection Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 06/25] io_uring/kbuf: add buffer ring pinning/unpinning Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 07/25] io_uring/kbuf: add recycling for kernel managed buffer rings Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 08/25] io_uring: add io_uring_fixed_index_get() and io_uring_fixed_index_put() Joanne Koong
2026-01-22 21:02   ` Caleb Sander Mateos
2026-01-27 20:05     ` Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 09/25] io_uring/kbuf: add io_uring_is_kmbuf_ring() Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 10/25] io_uring/kbuf: export io_ring_buffer_select() Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 11/25] io_uring/kbuf: return buffer id in buffer selection Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 12/25] io_uring/cmd: set selected buffer index in __io_uring_cmd_done() Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 13/25] fuse: refactor io-uring logic for getting next fuse request Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 14/25] fuse: refactor io-uring header copying to ring Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 15/25] fuse: refactor io-uring header copying from ring Joanne Koong
2026-01-27 23:11   ` Bernd Schubert
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 16/25] fuse: use enum types for header copying Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 17/25] fuse: refactor setting up copy state for payload copying Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 18/25] fuse: support buffer copying for kernel addresses Joanne Koong
2026-01-27 23:39   ` Bernd Schubert
2026-01-28  0:23     ` Joanne Koong
2026-01-28 21:14       ` Bernd Schubert
2026-01-29  1:16         ` Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 19/25] fuse: add io-uring kernel-managed buffer ring Joanne Koong
2026-01-17  5:28   ` kernel test robot
2026-01-28 21:44   ` Bernd Schubert
2026-01-29  1:15     ` Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 20/25] io_uring/rsrc: rename io_buffer_register_bvec()/io_buffer_unregister_bvec() Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 21/25] io_uring/rsrc: split io_buffer_register_request() logic Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 22/25] io_uring/rsrc: Allow buffer release callback to be optional Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 23/25] io_uring/rsrc: add io_buffer_register_bvec() Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 24/25] fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring Joanne Koong
2026-01-16 23:30 ` [PATCH v4 25/25] docs: fuse: add io-uring bufring and zero-copy documentation Joanne Koong
2026-01-27 20:12 ` [PATCH v4 00/25] fuse/io-uring: add kernel-managed buffer rings and zero-copy Joanne Koong
2026-01-27 22:44   ` Bernd Schubert
2026-01-27 23:27     ` Joanne Koong

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