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([2601:647:4000:d7:68ce:22b2:7e75:c452]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t63sm11524963pfb.70.2020.01.12.16.50.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:50:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 31/37] sg: add sg_iosubmit_v3 and sg_ioreceive_v3 ioctls To: Douglas Gilbert , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hare@suse.de, Christoph Hellwig References: <20200112235755.14197-1-dgilbert@interlog.com> <20200112235755.14197-32-dgilbert@interlog.com> From: Bart Van Assche Autocrypt: addr=bvanassche@acm.org; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQENBFSOu4oBCADcRWxVUvkkvRmmwTwIjIJvZOu6wNm+dz5AF4z0FHW2KNZL3oheO3P8UZWr LQOrCfRcK8e/sIs2Y2D3Lg/SL7qqbMehGEYcJptu6mKkywBfoYbtBkVoJ/jQsi2H0vBiiCOy fmxMHIPcYxaJdXxrOG2UO4B60Y/BzE6OrPDT44w4cZA9DH5xialliWU447Bts8TJNa3lZKS1 AvW1ZklbvJfAJJAwzDih35LxU2fcWbmhPa7EO2DCv/LM1B10GBB/oQB5kvlq4aA2PSIWkqz4 3SI5kCPSsygD6wKnbRsvNn2mIACva6VHdm62A7xel5dJRfpQjXj2snd1F/YNoNc66UUTABEB AAG0JEJhcnQgVmFuIEFzc2NoZSA8YnZhbmFzc2NoZUBhY20ub3JnPokBOQQTAQIAIwUCVI67 igIbAwcLCQgHAwIBBhUIAgkKCwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEHFcPTXFzhAJ8QkH/1AdXblKL65M Y1Zk1bYKnkAb4a98LxCPm/pJBilvci6boefwlBDZ2NZuuYWYgyrehMB5H+q+Kq4P0IBbTqTa jTPAANn62A6jwJ0FnCn6YaM9TZQjM1F7LoDX3v+oAkaoXuq0dQ4hnxQNu792bi6QyVdZUvKc macVFVgfK9n04mL7RzjO3f+X4midKt/s+G+IPr4DGlrq+WH27eDbpUR3aYRk8EgbgGKvQFdD CEBFJi+5ZKOArmJVBSk21RHDpqyz6Vit3rjep7c1SN8s7NhVi9cjkKmMDM7KYhXkWc10lKx2 RTkFI30rkDm4U+JpdAd2+tP3tjGf9AyGGinpzE2XY1K5AQ0EVI67igEIAKiSyd0nECrgz+H5 PcFDGYQpGDMTl8MOPCKw/F3diXPuj2eql4xSbAdbUCJzk2ETif5s3twT2ER8cUTEVOaCEUY3 eOiaFgQ+nGLx4BXqqGewikPJCe+UBjFnH1m2/IFn4T9jPZkV8xlkKmDUqMK5EV9n3eQLkn5g lco+FepTtmbkSCCjd91EfThVbNYpVQ5ZjdBCXN66CKyJDMJ85HVr5rmXG/nqriTh6cv1l1Js T7AFvvPjUPknS6d+BETMhTkbGzoyS+sywEsQAgA+BMCxBH4LvUmHYhpS+W6CiZ3ZMxjO8Hgc ++w1mLeRUvda3i4/U8wDT3SWuHcB3DWlcppECLkAEQEAAYkBHwQYAQIACQUCVI67igIbDAAK CRBxXD01xc4QCZ4dB/0QrnEasxjM0PGeXK5hcZMT9Eo998alUfn5XU0RQDYdwp6/kMEXMdmT oH0F0xB3SQ8WVSXA9rrc4EBvZruWQ+5/zjVrhhfUAx12CzL4oQ9Ro2k45daYaonKTANYG22y //x8dLe2Fv1By4SKGhmzwH87uXxbTJAUxiWIi1np0z3/RDnoVyfmfbbL1DY7zf2hYXLLzsJR mSsED/1nlJ9Oq5fALdNEPgDyPUerqHxcmIub+pF0AzJoYHK5punqpqfGmqPbjxrJLPJfHVKy goMj5DlBMoYqEgpbwdUYkH6QdizJJCur4icy8GUNbisFYABeoJ91pnD4IGei3MTdvINSZI5e Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:50:06 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200112235755.14197-32-dgilbert@interlog.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 2020-01-12 15:57, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Add ioctl(SG_IOSUBMIT_V3) and ioctl(SG_IORECEIVE_V3). These ioctls > are meant to be (almost) drop-in replacements for the write()/read() > async version 3 interface. They only accept the version 3 interface. > > See the webpage at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_v40.html > specifically the table in the section titled: "13 SG interface > support changes". > > If sgv3 is a struct sg_io_hdr object, suitably configured, then > res = write(sg_fd, &sgv3, sizeof(sgv3)); > and > res = ioctl(sg_fd, SG_IOSUBMIT_V3, &sgv3); > are equivalent. Dito for read() and ioctl(SG_IORECEIVE_V3). The Linux kernel already supports several interfaces for submitting I/O requests asynchronously, e.g. libaio and io_uring. Do we really need yet another interface for submitting I/O requests? Has it been considered to add SG I/O support to one of the existing asynchronous I/O request interfaces? Thanks, Bart.