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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] io_uring: test patch for fd passing
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:48:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 3/4/20 6:13 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 04/03/2020 02:50, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> This allows a chain link to set ->fd to IOSQE_FD_LAST_OPEN, which will
>> then be turned into the results from the last open (or accept) request
>> in the chain. If no open has been done, this isn't valid and the request
>> will be errored with -EBADF.
>>
>> With this, we can define chains of open+read+close, where the read and
>> close part can work on the fd instantiated by the open request.
>>
>> Totally a work in progress, POC so far.
> 
> I'm concerned of having and supporting all these IOSQE flavours. Isn't it the
> thing that can be potentially done with eBPF?

It could totally be done with BPF, but honestly I'd love to avoid the
extra dependency.

But in talks with Josh, I really like his suggestion on being able to ask
for a specific fd instead. I've reworked it to sit on top of that instead,
I'll post a new series soon.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-04 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03 23:50 [PATCHSET RFC 0/4] Support passing fds between chain links Jens Axboe
2020-03-03 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] io_uring: add end-of-bits marker and build time verify it Jens Axboe
2020-03-03 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] io_uring: move CLOSE req->file checking into handler Jens Axboe
2020-03-04 13:07   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-03-04 17:47     ` Jens Axboe
2020-03-03 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] io_uring: move read/write side file based prep into op handler Jens Axboe
2020-03-03 23:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] io_uring: test patch for fd passing Jens Axboe
2020-03-04 13:13   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-03-04 17:48     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-03-04  0:43 ` [PATCHSET RFC 0/4] Support passing fds between chain links Jeff Layton

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