Re: [RFC net-next v3 23/29] io_uring: allow to pass addr into sendzc

[Pavel Begunkov]

On 8/13/22 09:45, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Pavel,

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for giving a thought about the API, are you trying
to use it in samba?

> > > Given that this fills in msg almost completely can we also have
> > > a version of SENDMSGZC, it would be very useful to also allow
> > > msg_control to be passed and as well as an iovec.
> > >
> > > Would that be possible?
> >
> > Right, I left it to follow ups as the series is already too long.
> >
> > fwiw, I'm going to also add addr to IORING_OP_SEND.
>
>
> Given the minimal differences, which were left between
> IORING_OP_SENDZC and IORING_OP_SEND, wouldn't it be better
> to merge things to IORING_OP_SEND using a IORING_RECVSEND_ZC_NOTIF
> as indication to use the notif slot.

And will be even more similar in for-next, but with notifications
I'd still prefer different opcodes to get a little bit more
flexibility and not making the normal io_uring send path messier.

> It would means we don't need to waste two opcodes for
> IORING_OP_SENDZC and IORING_OP_SENDMSGZC (and maybe more)
>
>
> I also noticed a problem in io_notif_update()
>
>          for (; idx < idx_end; idx++) {
>                  struct io_notif_slot *slot = &ctx->notif_slots[idx];
>
>                  if (!slot->notif)
>                          continue;
>                  if (up->arg)
>                          slot->tag = up->arg;
>                  io_notif_slot_flush_submit(slot, issue_flags);
>          }
>
>   slot->tag = up->arg is skipped if there is no notif already.
>
> So you can't just use a 2 linked sqe's with
>
> IORING_RSRC_UPDATE_NOTIF followed by IORING_OP_SENDZC(with IORING_RECVSEND_NOTIF_FLUSH)

slot->notif is lazily initialised with the first send attached to it,
so in your example IORING_OP_SENDZC will first create a notification
to execute the send and then will flush it.

This "if" is there is only to have a more reliable API. We can
go over the range and allocate all empty slots and then flush
all of them, but allocation failures should be propagated to the
userspace when currently the function it can't fail.

> I think the if (!slot->notif) should be moved down a bit.

Not sure what you mean

> It would somehow be nice to avoid the notif slots at all and somehow
> use some kind of multishot request in order to generate two qces.

It is there first to ammortise overhead of zerocopy infra and bits
for second CQE posting. But more importantly, without it for TCP
the send payload size would need to be large enough or performance
would suffer, but all depends on the use case. TL;DR; it would be
forced to create a new SKB for each new send.

For something simpler, I'll push another zc variant that doesn't
have notifiers and posts only one CQE and only after the buffers
are no more in use by the kernel. This works well for UDP and for
some TCP scenarios, but doesn't cover all cases.
> I'm also wondering what will happen if a notif will be referenced by the net layer
> but the io_uring instance is already closed, wouldn't
> io_uring_tx_zerocopy_callback() or __io_notif_complete_tw() crash
> because notif->ctx is a stale pointer, of notif itself is already gone...

io_uring will flush all slots and wait for all notifications
to fire, i.e. io_uring_tx_zerocopy_callback(), so it's not a
problem.

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Pavel Begunkov