signal/timer/event: KAIO eventfd support example
This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code,
in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd (hence
compatible with POSIX select/poll). The KAIO code simply signals the eventfd
fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd. This patch
uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass an eventfd
file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time a request
completes. At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the completed result
to a struct io_event. I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it
runs fine here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-aio-test.c
The test program uses poll(2), but it'd, of course, work with select and epoll
too.
This can allow to schedule both block I/O and other poll-able devices
requests, and wait for results using select/poll/epoll. In a typical
scenario, an application would submit KAIO request using aio_submit(), and
will also use epoll_ctl() on the whole other class of devices (that with the
addition of signals, timers and user events, now it's pretty much complete),
and then would:
epoll_wait(...);
for_each_event {
if (curr_event_is_kaiofd) {
aio_getevents();
dispatch_aio_events();
} else {
dispatch_epoll_event();
}
}
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/aio_abi.h b/include/linux/aio_abi.h
index e3ca0a4..9e01729 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio_abi.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio_abi.h
@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@
IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV = 8,
};
+/*
+ * Valid flags for the "aio_flags" member of the "struct iocb".
+ *
+ * IOCB_FLAG_RESFD - Set if the "aio_resfd" member of the "struct iocb"
+ * is valid.
+ */
+#define IOCB_FLAG_RESFD (1 << 0)
+
/* read() from /dev/aio returns these structures. */
struct io_event {
__u64 data; /* the data field from the iocb */
@@ -84,7 +92,15 @@
/* extra parameters */
__u64 aio_reserved2; /* TODO: use this for a (struct sigevent *) */
- __u64 aio_reserved3;
+
+ /* flags for the "struct iocb" */
+ __u32 aio_flags;
+
+ /*
+ * if the IOCB_FLAG_RESFD flag of "aio_flags" is set, this is an
+ * eventfd to signal AIO readiness to
+ */
+ __u32 aio_resfd;
}; /* 64 bytes */
#undef IFBIG