On Sat, 25 Jun 2022 11:55:38 +0100, 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. > > [...] Applied, thanks! [1/1] io_uring: let to set a range for file slot allocation commit: 864a15ca4f196184e3f44d72efc1782a7017cbbd Best regards, -- Jens Axboe