On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:57:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Hello, > > Add IORING_OP_FUSED_CMD, it is one special URING_CMD, which has to > be SQE128. The 1st SQE(master) is one 64byte URING_CMD, and the 2nd > 64byte SQE(slave) is another normal 64byte OP. For any OP which needs > to support slave OP, io_issue_defs[op].fused_slave needs to be set as 1, > and its ->issue() can retrieve/import buffer from master request's > fused_cmd_kbuf. The slave OP is actually submitted from kernel, part of > this idea is from Xiaoguang's ublk ebpf patchset, but this patchset > submits slave OP just like normal OP issued from userspace, that said, > SQE order is kept, and batching handling is done too. > > Please see detailed design in commit log of the 2th patch, and one big > point is how to handle buffer ownership. > > With this way, it is easy to support zero copy for ublk/fuse device. > > Basically userspace can specify any sub-buffer of the ublk block request > buffer from the fused command just by setting 'offset/len' > in the slave SQE for running slave OP. This way is flexible to implement > io mapping: mirror, stripped, ... > > The 3th & 4th patches enable fused slave support for the following OPs: > > OP_READ/OP_WRITE > OP_SEND/OP_RECV/OP_SEND_ZC > > The other ublk patches cleans ublk driver and implement fused command > for supporting zero copy. > > Follows userspace code: > > https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/tree/fused-cmd-zc-v2 > > All three(loop, nbd and qcow2) ublk targets have supported zero copy by passing: > > ublk add -t [loop|nbd|qcow2] -z .... > > Basic fs mount/kernel building and builtin test are done, and also not > observe regression on xfstest test over ublk-loop with zero copy. > > Also add liburing test case for covering fused command based on miniublk > of blktest: > > https://github.com/ming1/liburing/commits/fused_cmd_miniublk > > Performance improvement is obvious on memory bandwidth > related workloads, such as, 1~2X improvement on 64K/512K BS > IO test on loop with ramfs backing file. > > Any comments are welcome! > > V3: > - fix build warning reported by kernel test robot > - drop patch for checking fused flags on existed drivers with > ->uring_command(), which isn't necessary, since we do not do that > when adding new ioctl or uring command > - inline io_init_rq() for core code, so just export io_init_slave_req > - return result of failed slave request unconditionally since REQ_F_CQE_SKIP > will be cleared > - pass xfstest over ublk-loop Hello Jens and Guys, I have been working on io_uring zero copy support for ublk/fuse for a while, and I appreciate you may share any thoughts on this patchset or approach? Thanks, Ming
