[RFC 00/12] io_uring dmabuf read/write support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 12:15:54PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> > to attach to / detach from a dma_buf, and then have an iter that
> > specifies a dmabuf and offsets into.  That way the code behind the
> > file operations can forward the attachment to all the needed
> > devices (including more/less while it remains attached to the file)
> > and can pick the right dma address for each device.
> 
> By "iter that specifies a dmabuf" do you mean an opaque file-specific
> structure allocated inside the new fop?

I mean a reference the actual dma_buf (probably indirect through the file
* for it, but listen to the dma_buf experts for that and not me).

> Akin to what Keith proposed back
> then. That sounds good and has more potential for various optimisations.
> My concern would be growing struct iov_iter by an extra pointer:

> struct iov_iter {
> 	union {
> 		struct iovec *iov;
> 		struct dma_seg *dmav;
> 		...
> 	};
> 	void *dma_token;	
> };
> 
> But maybe that's fine. It's 40B -> 48B,

Alternatively we could the union point to a struct that has the dma buf
pointer and a variable length array of dma_segs. Not sure if that would
create a mess in the callers, though.

> and it'll get back to
> 40 when / if xarray_start / ITER_XARRAY is removed.

Would it?  At least for 64-bit architectures nr_segs is the same size.