Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] io_uring: add helper for uring_cmd completion in submitter-task

[Kanchan Joshi <joshiiitr@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:18 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:55:55AM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> > I started with that, but the problem was implementing the driver callback .
> > The callbacks receive only one argument which is "struct callback_head
> > *", and the driver needs to extract "io_uring_cmd *" out of it.
> > This part -
> > +static void uring_cmd_work(struct callback_head *cb)
> > +{
> > +     struct io_kiocb *req = container_of(cb, struct io_kiocb, task_work);
> > +     struct io_uring_cmd *cmd = &req->uring_cmd;
> >
> > If the callback has to move to the driver (nvme), the driver needs
> > visibility to "struct io_kiocb" which is uring-local.
> > Do you see a better way to handle this?
>
> Can't you just add a helper in io_uring.c that does something like this:
>
> struct io_uring_cmd *callback_to_io_uring_cmd(struct callback_head *cb)
> {
>         return &container_of(cb, struct io_kiocb, task_work)->uring_cmd;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(callback_to_io_uring_cmd);

That solves it, thanks.


--
Kanchan

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