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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hch@lst.de, jmoyer@redhat.com, avi@scylladb.com,
	jannh@google.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/19] io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:48:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <263c8879-76c7-fd53-d37d-68b2e6993a9b@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190208173423.27014-13-axboe@kernel.dk>

On 2/8/19 6:34 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> If we have fixed user buffers, we can map them into the kernel when we
> setup the io_uring. That avoids the need to do get_user_pages() for
> each and every IO.
> 
> To utilize this feature, the application must call io_uring_register()
> after having setup an io_uring instance, passing in
> IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS as the opcode. The argument must be a pointer to
> an iovec array, and the nr_args should contain how many iovecs the
> application wishes to map.
> 
> If successful, these buffers are now mapped into the kernel, eligible
> for IO. To use these fixed buffers, the application must use the
> IORING_OP_READ_FIXED and IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED opcodes, and then
> set sqe->index to the desired buffer index. sqe->addr..sqe->addr+seq->len
> must point to somewhere inside the indexed buffer.
> 
> The application may register buffers throughout the lifetime of the
> io_uring instance. It can call io_uring_register() with
> IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS as the opcode to unregister the current set of
> buffers, and then register a new set. The application need not
> unregister buffers explicitly before shutting down the io_uring
> instance.
> 
> It's perfectly valid to setup a larger buffer, and then sometimes only
> use parts of it for an IO. As long as the range is within the originally
> mapped region, it will work just fine.
> 
> For now, buffers must not be file backed. If file backed buffers are
> passed in, the registration will fail with -1/EOPNOTSUPP. This
> restriction may be relaxed in the future.
> 
> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is used to check how much memory we can pin. A somewhat
> arbitrary 1G per buffer size is also imposed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> ---
>   arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl |   1 +
>   arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl |   1 +
>   fs/io_uring.c                          | 356 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   include/linux/sched/user.h             |   2 +-
>   include/linux/syscalls.h               |   2 +
>   include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h      |   4 +-
>   include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h          |  13 +-
>   kernel/sys_ni.c                        |   1 +
>   8 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-09  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08 17:34 [PATCHSET v13] io_uring IO interface Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 01/19] fs: add an iopoll method to struct file_operations Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:20   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 02/19] block: wire up block device iopoll method Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:22   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 03/19] block: add bio_set_polled() helper Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:24   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 04/19] iomap: wire up the iopoll method Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:25   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 05/19] Add io_uring IO interface Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 22:12   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-09  4:15     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 21:42       ` Jann Horn
2019-02-12 22:03         ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 22:06           ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 22:40             ` Jann Horn
2019-02-12 22:45               ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 22:52                 ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 22:57                   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-12 23:00                     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 23:11                       ` Jann Horn
2019-02-12 23:19                         ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 23:28                           ` Jann Horn
2019-02-12 23:46                             ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-12 23:53                               ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-13  0:07                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-13  0:14                                   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-13  0:24                                   ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:35   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 06/19] io_uring: add fsync support Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 22:36   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-08 23:31     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:37   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 07/19] io_uring: support for IO polling Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:39   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 08/19] fs: add fget_many() and fput_many() Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:41   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 09/19] io_uring: use fget/fput_many() for file references Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:42   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 10/19] io_uring: batch io_kiocb allocation Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:43   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 11/19] block: implement bio helper to add iter bvec pages to bio Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:45   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 12/19] io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 22:54   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-08 23:38     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-09 16:50       ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:48   ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 13/19] net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 19:49   ` David Miller
2019-02-08 19:51     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:49   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 14/19] io_uring: add file set registration Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 20:26   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-09  0:16     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:50   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 15/19] io_uring: add submission polling Jens Axboe
2019-02-09  9:53   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 16/19] io_uring: add io_kiocb ref count Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 17/19] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_POLL Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 18/19] io_uring: allow workqueue item to handle multiple buffered requests Jens Axboe
2019-02-08 17:34 ` [PATCH 19/19] io_uring: add io_uring_event cache hit information Jens Axboe
2019-02-09 21:13 [PATCHSET v14] io_uring IO interface Jens Axboe
2019-02-09 21:13 ` [PATCH 12/19] io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers Jens Axboe
2019-02-11 19:00 [PATCHSET v15] io_uring IO interface Jens Axboe
2019-02-11 19:00 ` [PATCH 12/19] io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers Jens Axboe
2019-02-19 19:08   ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 22:29     ` Jens Axboe

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