From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>, io-uring@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next] io_uring: let to set a range for file slot allocation
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 07:08:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91ee50d5-60e8-39e9-604f-bc6aed6f18a6@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66ab0394e436f38437cf7c44676e1920d09687ad.1656154403.git.asml.silence@gmail.com>
On 6/25/22 4:55 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> From recently io_uring provides an option to allocate a file index for
> operation registering fixed files. However, it's utterly unusable with
> mixed approaches when for a part of files the userspace knows better
> where to place it, as it may race and users don't have any sane way to
> pick a slot and hoping it will not be taken.
>
> Let the userspace to register a range of fixed file slots in which the
> auto-allocation happens. The use case is splittting the fixed table in
> two parts, where on of them is used for auto-allocation and another for
> slot-specified operations.
This looks pretty straight forward, and a useful addition to be able to
mix and match app and ring managed direct descriptors. I'll let others
comment on it first.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-25 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-25 10:55 [PATCH for-next] io_uring: let to set a range for file slot allocation Pavel Begunkov
2022-06-25 13:08 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2022-06-27 7:47 ` Hao Xu
2022-06-29 12:18 ` Pavel Begunkov
2022-06-29 12:29 ` Hao Xu
2022-06-29 17:02 ` Jens Axboe
2022-06-29 17:02 ` Jens Axboe
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