Hi, io_uring SQ/CQ rings are allocated by the kernel from contigious, normal pages, and then the application mmap()'s the rings into userspace. This works fine, but does require contigious pages to be available for the given SQ and CQ ring sizes. As uptime increases on a given system, so does memory fragmentation. Entropy is invevitable. This patchset adds support for the application passing in a pre-allocated huge page, and then placing the rings in that. This reduces the need for contigious pages, and also reduces the TLB pressure for larger rings. The liburing huge.2 branch has support for using this trivially. Applications may use the normal ring init helpers and set IORING_SETUP_NO_MMAP, in which case a huge page will get allocated for them and used. Or they may use io_uring_queue_init_mem() and pass in a pre-allocated huge page, getting the amount of it used returned. This allows placing multiple rings into a single huge page. -- Jens Axboe
