[PATCH v3 0/4] io_uring/uring_cmd: allow non-iopoll cmds with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL

From: Caleb Sander Mateos

Date: Thu Feb 19 2026 - 12:26:03 EST


Currently, creating an io_uring with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL requires all
requests issued to it to support iopoll. This prevents, for example,
using ublk zero-copy together with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL, as ublk
zero-copy buffer registrations are performed using a uring_cmd. There's
no technical reason why these non-iopoll uring_cmds can't be supported.
They will either complete synchronously or via an external mechanism
that calls io_uring_cmd_done(), so they don't need to be polled.

Allow uring_cmd requests to be issued to IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL io_urings
even if their files don't implement ->uring_cmd_iopoll().

Use a new REQ_F_IOPOLL flag to track whether a request is using iopoll.
This makes the iopoll_queue opcode definition flag unnecessary.

The last commit removes an unnecessary IO_URING_F_IOPOLL check in
nvme_dev_uring_cmd() as NVMe admin passthru commands can be issued to
IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL io_urings now.

v3: fix REW -> REQ typo (Anuj)

v2:
- Add REQ_F_IOPOLL request flag, remove redundant iopoll_queue
- Split IORING_OP_URING_CMD128 fix to a separate commit

Caleb Sander Mateos (4):
io_uring: add REQ_F_IOPOLL
io_uring: remove iopoll_queue from struct io_issue_def
io_uring/uring_cmd: allow non-iopoll cmds with IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL
nvme: remove nvme_dev_uring_cmd() IO_URING_F_IOPOLL check

drivers/nvme/host/ioctl.c | 4 ----
include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 3 +++
io_uring/io_uring.c | 10 ++++------
io_uring/opdef.c | 10 ----------
io_uring/opdef.h | 2 --
io_uring/rw.c | 11 ++++++-----
io_uring/uring_cmd.c | 9 ++++-----
7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

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