Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] open/accept directly into io_uring fixed file table

On 8/21/21 9:52 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:

Add an optional feature to open/accept directly into io_uring's fixed
file table bypassing the normal file table. Same behaviour if as the
snippet below, but in one operation:

sqe = prep_[open,accept](...);
cqe = submit_and_wait(sqe);
io_uring_register_files_update(uring_idx, (fd = cqe->res));
close((fd = cqe->res));

The idea in pretty old, and was brough up and implemented a year ago
by Josh Triplett, though haven't sought the light for some reasons.

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.

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.

since RFC:
 - added attribution
 - updated descriptions
 - rebased

since v1:
 - EBADF if slot is already used (Josh Triplett)
 - alias index with splice_fd_in (Josh Triplett)
 - fix a bound check bug

With the prep series, this looks good to me now. Josh, what do you
think?

And we need the net folks to sign off on the first patch, of course.

-- 
Jens Axboe