On 6/25/22 4:55 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > From recently io_uring provides an option to allocate a file index for > operation registering fixed files. However, it's utterly unusable with > mixed approaches when for a part of files the userspace knows better > where to place it, as it may race and users don't have any sane way to > pick a slot and hoping it will not be taken. > > Let the userspace to register a range of fixed file slots in which the > auto-allocation happens. The use case is splittting the fixed table in > two parts, where on of them is used for auto-allocation and another for > slot-specified operations. This looks pretty straight forward, and a useful addition to be able to mix and match app and ring managed direct descriptors. I'll let others comment on it first. -- Jens Axboe
