On 11/15/24 10:12 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 04:40:58PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote: >>> So? If we have a strong enough requirement for something else we >>> can triviall add another opcode. Maybe we should just add different >>> opcodes for read/write with metadata so that folks don't freak out >>> about this? >> >> IMHO, PI is not so special to have a special opcode for it unlike >> some more generic read/write with meta / attributes, but that one >> would have same questions. > > Well, apparently is one the hand hand not general enough that you > don't want to give it SQE128 space, but you also don't want to give > it an opcode. > > Maybe we just need make it uring_cmd to get out of these conflicting > requirements. Let's please lay off the hyperbole here, uring_cmd would be a terrible way to do this. We're working through the flags requirements. Obviously this is now missing 6.13, but there's no reason why it's not on track to make 6.14 in a saner way. -- Jens Axboe
