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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14/07/2020 11:07, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:51 AM Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >>>> At first, I thought that the proposed system call is capable of >>>> reading *multiple* small files using a single system call - which >>>> would help increase HDD/SSD queue utilization and increase IOPS (I/O >>>> operations per second) - but that isn't the case and the proposed >>>> system call can read just a single file. >>> >>> If you want to do this for multple files, use io_ring, that's what it >>> was designed for. I think Jens was going to be adding support for the >>> open/read/close pattern to it as well, after some other more pressing >>> features/fixes were finished. >> >> What about... just using io_uring for single file, too? I'm pretty >> sure it can be wrapped in a library that is simple to use, avoiding >> need for new syscall. > > Just wondering: is there a plan to add strace support to io_uring? > And I don't just mean the syscalls associated with io_uring, but > tracing the ring itself. What kind of support do you mean? io_uring is asynchronous in nature with all intrinsic tracing/debugging/etc. problems of such APIs. And there are a lot of handy trace points, are those not enough? Though, this can be an interesting project to rethink how async APIs are worked with. > > I think that's quite important as io_uring becomes mainstream. -- Pavel Begunkov