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From: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: io-uring Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	netdev Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	GNU/Weeb Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Tea Inside Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	"David S. Miller" <[email protected]>,
	Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>, Nugra <[email protected]>,
	Praveen Kumar <[email protected]>,
	Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-5.18 v1 0/3] Add `sendto(2)` and `recvfrom(2)` support
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 06:30:52 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 1/30/22 1:32 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/29/22 5:50 AM, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patchset adds sendto(2) and recvfrom(2) support for io_uring. It
>> also addresses an issue in the liburing GitHub repository [1].
>>
>> ## Motivations:
>>
>> 1) By using `sendto()` and `recvfrom()` we can make the submission
>>     simpler compared to always using `sendmsg()` and `recvmsg()` from
>>     the userspace. Especially for UDP socket.
>>
>> 2) There is a historical patch that tried to add the same
>>     functionality, but did not end up being applied. [2]
> 
> As far as I can tell, the only win from sendto/recvfrom is that we can
> handle async offload a bit cheaper compared to sendmsg/recvmsg. Is this
> enough to warrant adding them separately? I don't know, which is why
> this has been somewhat stalled for a while.
> 
> Maybe you have done some testing and have numbers (or other reasons) to
> back up the submission? There's not a whole lot of justification in this
> patchset.
> 

So far, I haven't done it. I only created a test that ensures the
functionality is working properly.

I will play with this further. If I win, I will submit the v2 of
this series for review. Thanks, Jens!

-- 
Ammar Faizi

      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 12:50 [PATCH for-5.18 v1 0/3] Add `sendto(2)` and `recvfrom(2)` support Ammar Faizi
2022-01-29 12:50 ` [PATCH for-5.18 v1 1/3] io_uring: Rename `io_{send,recv}` to `io_{sendto,recvfrom}` Ammar Faizi
2022-01-29 12:50 ` [PATCH for-5.18 v1 2/3] net: Make `move_addr_to_user()` be a non static function Ammar Faizi
2022-01-29 12:50 ` [PATCH for-5.18 v1 3/3] io_uring: Add `sendto(2)` and `recvfrom(2)` support Ammar Faizi
2022-01-29 18:32 ` [PATCH for-5.18 v1 0/3] " Jens Axboe
2022-01-29 23:30   ` Ammar Faizi [this message]

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