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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	Colin Walters <[email protected]>,
	Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>,
	[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2 0/6] io_uring: add support for open/close
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:21:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 1/17/20 2:32 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 1/17/2020 3:44 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
>>> The client can compound a chain with open, getinfo, read, close
>>> getinfo, read and close get an file handle of -1 and implicitly
>>> get the fd generated/used in the previous request.
>>
>> Sounds similar to  https://capnproto.org/rpc.html too.
>>
> Looks like just grouping a pack of operations for RPC.
> With io_uring we could implement more interesting stuff. I've been
> thinking about eBPF in io_uring for a while as well, and apparently it
> could be _really_ powerful, and would allow almost zero-context-switches
> for some usecases.
> 
> 1. full flow control with eBPF
> - dropping requests (links)
> - emitting reqs/links (e.g. after completions of another req)
> - chaining/redirecting
> of course, all of that with fast intermediate computations in between
> 
> 2. do long eBPF programs by introducing a new opcode (punted to async).
> (though, there would be problems with that)
> 
> Could even allow to dynamically register new opcodes within the kernel
> and extend it to eBPF, if there will be demand for such things.

We're also looking into exactly that at Facebook, nothing concrete yet
though. But it's clear we need it to take full advantage of links at
least, and it's also clear that it would unlock a lot of really cool
functionality once we do.

Pavel, I'd strongly urge you to submit a talk to LSF/MM/BPF about this.
It's the perfect venue to have some concrete planning around this topic
and get things rolling.

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191122172502.vffyfxlqejthjib6@macbook-pro-91.dhcp.thefacebook.com/

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-17 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 17:00 [PATCHSET v2 0/6] io_uring: add support for open/close Jens Axboe
2020-01-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] fs: add namei support for doing a non-blocking path lookup Jens Axboe
2020-01-25 13:15   ` Jeff Layton
2020-01-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 2/6] fs: make build_open_flags() available internally Jens Axboe
2020-01-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 3/6] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_OPENAT Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 13:05   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-08 16:20     ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 16:32       ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-08 16:40         ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 17:04           ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-08 22:53             ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 23:03               ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-08 23:05                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 23:11                   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-08 23:22                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-09 10:40                       ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-09 21:31                         ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-16 22:42                           ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-17  0:16                             ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 4/6] fs: move filp_close() outside of __close_fd_get_file() Jens Axboe
2020-01-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 5/6] io-wq: add support for uncancellable work Jens Axboe
2020-01-07 17:00 ` [PATCH 6/6] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_CLOSE Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 21:17 ` [PATCHSET v2 0/6] io_uring: add support for open/close Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-08 22:57   ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-08 23:05     ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-09  1:02       ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-09  2:03         ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-16 22:50           ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-17  0:18             ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-20 12:15               ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-20 13:04                 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-17  0:44             ` Colin Walters
2020-01-17  0:51               ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-17  9:32               ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-17 15:21                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-01-17 22:27                   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-17 22:36                     ` Jens Axboe

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