From: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 liburing] add helper functions to verify io_uring functionality
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:29:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD-J=zZURZV46Tzx4fC4EteD4ejL=axKaw-CjtyFmYhCYzKEdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:13 AM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 1/30/20 9:00 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > It is common for an application using an ever-evolving interface to want
> > to inquire about the presence of certain functionality it plans to use.
> >
> > Information about opcodes is stored in a io_uring_probe structure. There
> > is usually some boilerplate involved in initializing one, and then using
> > it to check if it is enabled.
> >
> > This patch adds two new helper functions: one that returns a pointer to
> > a io_uring_probe (or null if it probe is not available), and another one
> > that given a probe checks if the opcode is supported.
>
> This looks good, I committed it with minor changes.
>
> On top of this, we should have a helper that doesn't need a ring. So
> basically one that just sets up a ring, calls io_uring_get_probe(),
> then tears down the ring.
>
I'd be happy to follow up with that.
Just to be sure, the information returned by probe should be able to outlive the
tear down of the ring, right ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-30 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-30 16:00 [PATCH v2 liburing] add helper functions to verify io_uring functionality Glauber Costa
2020-01-30 16:13 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30 16:29 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2020-01-30 16:31 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-31 13:52 ` Glauber Costa
2020-01-31 15:14 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-31 15:27 ` Glauber Costa
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