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From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	io-uring@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>,
	Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>,
	Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Cc: leit@fb.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dccp@vger.kernel.org,
	mptcp@lists.linux.dev, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org,
	ast@kernel.org, kuniyu@amazon.com, martin.lau@kernel.org,
	Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>,
	Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] net: wire up support for file_operations->uring_cmd()
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:09:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d289ab2c-dd5a-fd35-2a2a-7ccdfb947873@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9c9bd5f-b17e-fbd8-5646-4f51b927cc6b@gmail.com>

On 6/19/23 2:28 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> That callback is all about file dependent operations, just like ioctl.
> And as the patch in question is doing socket specific stuff, I think
> architecturally it fits well. I also believe Breno wants to extend it
> later to support more operations.
> 
> Sockets are a large chunk of use cases, it can be implemented as a
> separate io_uring request type if nothing else works, but in general
> that might not be as scalable.

The io_uring commands are wrappers to existing networking APIs - doing
via io_uring what userspace apps can do via system calls. As such, the
translations should be done in io_uring code and then invoking in-kernel
APIs.

Same comment applies to sockopts when those come around and any other
future extensions.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-20  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-14 11:07 [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] add initial io_uring_cmd support for sockets Breno Leitao
2023-06-14 11:07 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] net: wire up support for file_operations->uring_cmd() Breno Leitao
2023-06-14 15:15   ` David Ahern
2023-06-19  9:28     ` Pavel Begunkov
2023-06-19 14:06       ` Kanchan Joshi
2023-06-20  2:09       ` David Ahern [this message]
2023-06-19 11:20     ` Breno Leitao
2023-06-19 16:12       ` David Ahern
2023-06-23 10:17       ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-06-23 15:20         ` David Ahern
2023-06-14 11:07 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] net: add uring_cmd callback to UDP Breno Leitao
2023-06-14 11:07 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] net: add uring_cmd callback to TCP Breno Leitao
2023-06-14 11:07 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] net: add uring_cmd callback to raw "protocol" Breno Leitao

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