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From: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] fs: add file_operations->uring_cmd()
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:27:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 06:38:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:10:22PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > This is a file private handler, similar to ioctls but hopefully a lot
> > more sane and useful.
> 
> I really hate defining the interface in terms of io_uring.  This really
> is nothing but an async ioctl.

Calling it an ioctl does a disservice to what this is allowing.
Although ioctls might be a first use case, there is nothing tying the
commands to them.

  Luis

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-17  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-17 22:10 [PATCHSET v4 0/8] io_uring passthrough support Jens Axboe
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 1/8] io_uring: split up io_uring_sqe into hdr + main Jens Axboe
2021-03-18  5:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 18:40     ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-19 11:20       ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-03-19 13:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 22:34       ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 2/8] io_uring: add infrastructure around io_uring_cmd_sqe issue type Jens Axboe
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 3/8] fs: add file_operations->uring_cmd() Jens Axboe
2021-03-18  5:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 18:41     ` Jens Axboe
2022-02-17  1:27     ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2022-02-17  1:25   ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_URING_CMD Jens Axboe
2021-03-18  5:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 18:43     ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 5/8] block: wire up support for file_operations->uring_cmd() Jens Axboe
2021-03-18  5:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: add example ioctl Jens Axboe
2021-03-18  5:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 12:43     ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-03-18 18:44     ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 7/8] net: wire up support for file_operations->uring_cmd() Jens Axboe
2022-02-17  1:03   ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-03-17 22:10 ` [PATCH 8/8] net: add example SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCINQ/SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCOUTQ Jens Axboe

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