Re: [PATCH] io_uring/net: wire up support for sk->sk_prot->uring_cmd() with SOCKET_URING_OP_PASSTHROUGH_FLAG

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 26.11.25 um 23:19 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> On 11/26/25 4:19 AM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> > This will allow network protocols to implement async operations
> > instead of using ioctl() syscalls.
> >
> > By using the high bit there's more than enough room for generic
> > calls to be added, but also more than enough for protocols to
> > implement their own specific opcodes.
> >
> > The IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT socket layer [1] I'm currently working on,
> > will use this in future in order to let Samba use efficient RDMA offload.
>
> Patch looks fine to me, but I think it needs to be submitted with an
> actual user of it too. If not, then it's just unused infrastructure...
>
> > [1]
> > https://git.samba.org/?p=metze/linux/wip.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master-ipproto-smbdirect

Ok, thanks for the feedback, I'll resubmit once I'm ready to use it.

metze