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Commit fc68fcda authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe
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io_uring/rw: add support for IORING_OP_READ_MULTISHOT



This behaves like IORING_OP_READ, except:

1) It only supports pollable files (eg pipes, sockets, etc). Note that
   for sockets, you probably want to use recv/recvmsg with multishot
   instead.

2) It supports multishot mode, meaning it will repeatedly trigger a
   read and fill a buffer when data is available. This allows similar
   use to recv/recvmsg but on non-sockets, where a single request will
   repeatedly post a CQE whenever data is read from it.

3) Because of #2, it must be used with provided buffers. This is
   uniformly true across any request type that supports multishot and
   transfers data, with the reason being that it's obviously not
   possible to pass in a single buffer for the data, as multiple reads
   may very well trigger before an application has a chance to process
   previous CQEs and the data passed from them.

Reviewed-by: default avatarGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent d2d778fb
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