Unlike ppoll(2) and epoll(7), Linux io_uring completions can be polled
from userspace. Previously userspace polling was only allowed when all
AioHandler's had an ->io_poll() callback. This prevented starvation of
fds by userspace pollable handlers.
Add the FDMonOps->need_wait() callback that enables userspace polling
even when some AioHandlers lack ->io_poll().
For example, it's now possible to do userspace polling when a TCP/IP
socket is monitored thanks to Linux io_uring.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-7-stefanha@redhat.com
Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-7-stefanha@redhat.com>
The recent Linux io_uring API has several advantages over ppoll(2) and
epoll(2). Details are given in the source code.
Add an io_uring implementation and make it the default on Linux.
Performance is the same as with epoll(7) but later patches add
optimizations that take advantage of io_uring.
It is necessary to change how aio_set_fd_handler() deals with deleting
AioHandlers since removing monitored file descriptors is asynchronous in
io_uring. fdmon_io_uring_remove() marks the AioHandler deleted and
aio_set_fd_handler() will let it handle deletion in that case.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-6-stefanha@redhat.com
Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-6-stefanha@redhat.com>
Stefan Hajnoczi