Re: [RFC] /dev/ioasid uAPI proposal

[Jason Wang]

在 2021/6/3 上午1:21, Jason Gunthorpe 写道:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 04:54:26PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > 在 2021/6/2 上午1:31, Jason Gunthorpe 写道:
> > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:47:15PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > We can open up to ~0U file descriptors, I don't see why we need to restrict
> > > > it in uAPI.
> > > There are significant problems with such large file descriptor
> > > tables. High FD numbers man things like select don't work at all
> > > anymore and IIRC there are more complications.
> >
> > I don't see how much difference for IOASID and other type of fds. People can
> > choose to use poll or epoll.
> Not really, once one thing in an applicate uses a large number FDs the
> entire application is effected. If any open() can return 'very big
> number' then nothing in the process is allowed to ever use select.
>
> It is not a trivial thing to ask for
>
> > And with the current proposal, (assuming there's a N:1 ioasid to ioasid). I
> > wonder how select can work for the specific ioasid.
> pagefault events are one thing that comes to mind. Bundling them all
> together into a single ring buffer is going to be necessary. Multifds
> just complicate this too
>
> Jason


Well, this sounds like a re-invention of io_uring which has already 
worked for multifds.

Thanks