Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] open/accept directly into io_uring fixed file table

[Jens Axboe]

On 8/17/21 3:33 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 8/16/21 4:45 PM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
>> Hi Pavel,
>>
>>> The behaviour is controlled by setting sqe->file_index, where 0 implies
>>> the old behaviour. If non-zero value is specified, then it will behave
>>> as described and place the file into a fixed file slot
>>> sqe->file_index - 1. A file table should be already created, the slot
>>> should be valid and empty, otherwise the operation will fail.
>>>
>>> Note 1: we can't use IOSQE_FIXED_FILE to switch between modes, because
>>> accept takes a file, and it already uses the flag with a different
>>> meaning.
>>
>> Would it be hard to support IOSQE_FIXED_FILE for the dirfd of openat*, renameat, unlinkat, statx?
>> (And mkdirat, linkat, symlinkat when they arrive)
>> renameat and linkat might be trickier as they take two dirfds, but it
>> would make the feature more complete and useful.
> 
> Good idea. There is nothing blocking on the io_uring side, but
> the fs part may get ugly, e.g. too intrusive. We definitely need
> to take a look

Indeed, the io_uring side is trivial, but the VFS interface would
require a lot of man handling... That's why I didn't add support for
fixed files originally.

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Jens Axboe