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.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/66ab0394e436f38437cf7c44676e1920d09687ad.1656154403.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Put it with the filetable code, which is where it belongs. While doing
so, have the helpers take a ctx rather than an io_kiocb. It doesn't make
sense to use a request, as it's not an operation on the request itself.
It applies to the ring itself.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pavel Begunkov