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From: Bernd Schubert <[email protected]>
To: Ming Lei <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	[email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected],
	Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>,
	ZiyangZhang <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] ublk_drv: support splice based read/write zero copy
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 23:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>



On 11/3/22 09:50, Ming Lei wrote:
> Pass ublk block IO request pages to kernel backend IO handling code via
> pipe, and request page copy can be avoided. So far, the existed
> pipe/splice mechanism works for handling write request only.
> 
> The initial idea of using splice for zero copy is from Miklos and Stefan.
> 
> Read request's zero copy requires pipe's change to allow one read end to
> produce buffers for another read end to consume. The added SPLICE_F_READ_TO_READ
> flag is for supporting this feature.
> 
> READ is handled by sending IORING_OP_SPLICE with SPLICE_F_DIRECT |
> SPLICE_F_READ_TO_READ. WRITE is handled by sending IORING_OP_SPLICE with
> SPLICE_F_DIRECT. Kernel internal pipe is used for simplifying userspace,
> meantime potential info leak could be avoided.


Sorry to ask, do you have an ublk branch that gives an example how to 
use this?

I still have several things to fix in my branches, but I got basic fuse 
uring with copies working. Adding back splice would be next after 
posting rfc patches. My initial assumption was that I needed to 
duplicate everything splice does into the fuse .uring_cmd handler - 
obviously there is a better way with your patches.

This week I have a few days off, by end of next week or the week after I 
might have patches in an rfc state (one thing I'm going to ask about is 
how do I know what is the next CQE in the kernel handler - ublk does 
this with tags through mq, but I don't understand yet where the tag is 
increased and what the relation between tag and right CQE order is).

This got modeled a bit after ublk, but then diverged a bit.

https://github.com/aakefbs/linux/tree/fuse-uring
https://github.com/aakefbs/libfuse/tree/uring

(Again, the branches are not ready by any means for review yet).


Thanks,
Bernd

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-03 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-03  8:50 [RFC PATCH 0/4] io_uring/splice: extend splice for supporting ublk zero copy Ming Lei
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] io_uring/splice: support do_splice_direct Ming Lei
2022-11-08  7:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] fs/splice: add helper of splice_dismiss_pipe() Ming Lei
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] io_uring/splice: support splice from ->splice_read to ->splice_read Ming Lei
2022-11-08  7:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-08  8:29     ` Ming Lei
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] ublk_drv: support splice based read/write zero copy Ming Lei
2022-11-03 22:28   ` Bernd Schubert [this message]
2022-11-04  0:44     ` Ming Lei
2022-11-04 23:37       ` Bernd Schubert
2022-11-07  1:05         ` Ming Lei
2022-11-04  9:15 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] io_uring/splice: extend splice for supporting ublk " Ziyang Zhang

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