Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] net: wire up support for file_operations->uring_cmd()
David Ahern <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:12:55 +0000
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On 6/19/23 4:20 AM, Breno Leitao wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:15:10AM -0700, David Ahern wrote: >> On 6/14/23 5:07 AM, Breno Leitao wrote: >> io_uring is just another in-kernel user of sockets. There is no reason >> for io_uring references to be in core net code. It should be using >> exposed in-kernel APIs and doing any translation of its op codes in >> io_uring/ code. > Thanks for the feedback. If we want to keep the network subsystem > untouched, then I we can do it using an approach similar to the > following. Is this a better approach moving forward? yes. It keeps the translation from io_uring commands to networking APIs in one place and does not need to propagate that translation through the networking code.