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

[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

This looks interesting, however!

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Jens Axboe