Re: [PATCH for-next 3/4] io_uring: grow a field in struct io_uring_cmd

Sagi Grimberg
2022-07-11T17:55:59Z

>> Use the leftover space to carve 'next' field that enables linking of
>> io_uring_cmd structs. Also introduce a list head and few helpers.
>>
>> This is in preparation to support nvme-mulitpath, allowing multiple
>> uring passthrough commands to be queued.
>
> It's not clear to me why we need linking at that level?

I think the attempt is to allow something like blk_steal_bios that
nvme leverages for io_uring_cmd(s).

nvme failover steals all the bios from requests that fail (and should
failover) and puts them on a requeue list, and then schedules
a work that takes these bios one-by-one and submits them on a different
bottom namespace (see nvme_failover_req/nvme_requeue_work).