io_uring_prep_accept_direct(3) — Linux manual page

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io_uring_prep_accept(3)      liburing Manual     io_uring_prep_accept(3)

NAME         top

       io_uring_prep_accept - prepare an accept request

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <sys/socket.h>
       #include <liburing.h>

       void io_uring_prep_accept(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
                                 int sockfd,
                                 struct sockaddr *addr,
                                 socklen_t *addrlen,
                                 int flags);

       void io_uring_prep_accept_direct(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
                                        int sockfd,
                                        struct sockaddr *addr,
                                        socklen_t *addrlen,
                                        int flags,
                                        unsigned int file_index);

       void io_uring_prep_multishot_accept(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
                                           int sockfd,
                                           struct sockaddr *addr,
                                           socklen_t *addrlen,
                                           int flags);

       void io_uring_prep_multishot_accept_direct(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
                                                  int sockfd,
                                                  struct sockaddr *addr,
                                                  socklen_t *addrlen,
                                                  int flags);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The io_uring_prep_accept(3) function and its three variants
       prepare an accept request similar to accept4(2).  The submission
       queue entry sqe is setup to use the file descriptor sockfd to
       start accepting a connection request described by the socket
       address at addr and of structure length addrlen and using
       modifier flags in flags.

       The three variants allow combining the direct file table and
       multishot features.

       Direct descriptors are io_uring private file descriptors. They
       avoid some of the overhead associated with thread shared file
       tables and can be used in any io_uring request that takes a file
       descriptor.  The two direct variants here create such direct
       descriptors.  Subsequent to their creation, they can be used by
       setting IOSQE_FIXED_FILE in the SQE flags member, and setting the
       SQE fd field to the direct descriptor value rather than the
       regular file descriptor. Direct descriptors are managed like
       registered files.

       To use an accept direct variant, the application must first have
       registered a file table of a desired size using
       io_uring_register_files(3) or io_uring_register_files_sparse(3).
       Once registered, io_uring_prep_accept_direct(3) allows an entry
       in that table to be specifically selected through the file_index
       argument.  If the specified entry already contains a file, the
       file will first be removed from the table and closed, consistent
       with the behavior of updating an existing file with
       io_uring_register_files_update(3).  file_index can also be set to
       IORING_FILE_INDEX_ALLOC for this variant and an unused table
       index will be dynamically chosen and returned.  Likewise,
       io_uring_prep_multishot_accept_direct will have an unused table
       index dynamically chosen and returned for each connection
       accepted.  If both forms of direct selection will be employed,
       specific and dynamic, see io_uring_register_file_alloc_range(3)
       for setting up the table so dynamically chosen entries are made
       against a different range than that targeted by specific
       requests.

       Note that old kernels don't check the SQE file_index field
       meaning applications cannot rely on a -EINVAL CQE res being
       returned when the kernel is too old because older kernels may not
       recognize they are being asked to use a direct table slot.

       When a direct descriptor accept request asks for a table slot to
       be dynamically chosen but there are no free entries, -ENFILE is
       returned as the CQE res.

       The multishot variants allow an application to issue a single
       accept request, which will repeatedly trigger a CQE when a
       connection request comes in. Like other multishot type requests,
       the application should look at the CQE flags and see if
       IORING_CQE_F_MORE is set on completion as an indication of
       whether or not the accept request will generate further CQEs.
       Note that for the multishot variants, setting addr and addrlen
       may not make a lot of sense, as the same value would be used for
       every accepted connection. This means that the data written to
       addr may be overwritten by a new connection before the
       application has had time to process a past connection. If the
       application knows that a new connection cannot come in before a
       previous one has been processed, it may be used as expected. The
       multishot variants are available since 5.19.

       See the man page accept4(2) for details of the accept function
       itself.

RETURN VALUE         top

       None

ERRORS         top

       The CQE res field will contain the result of the operation.

       io_uring_prep_accept(3) generates the installed file descriptor
       as its result.

       io_uring_prep_accept_direct(3) and file_index set to a specific
       direct descriptor generates 0 on success.  The caller must
       remember which direct descriptor was picked for this request.

       io_uring_prep_accept_direct(3) and file_index set to
       IORING_FILE_INDEX_ALLOC generates the dynamically chosen direct
       descriptor.

       io_uring_prep_multishot_accept(3) generates the installed file
       descriptor in each result.

       io_uring_prep_multishot_accept_direct(3), generates the
       dynamically chosen direct descriptor in each result.

       Note that where synchronous system calls will return -1 on
       failure and set errno to the actual error value, io_uring never
       uses errno.  Instead it generates the negated errno directly in
       the CQE res field.

NOTES         top

       As with any request that passes in data in a struct, that data
       must remain valid until the request has been successfully
       submitted. It need not remain valid until completion. Once a
       request has been submitted, the in-kernel state is stable. Very
       early kernels (5.4 and earlier) required state to be stable until
       the completion occurred. Applications can test for this behavior
       by inspecting the IORING_FEAT_SUBMIT_STABLE flag passed back from
       io_uring_queue_init_params(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       io_uring_get_sqe(3), io_uring_submit(3),
       io_uring_register_files(3), io_uring_register_files_sparse(3),
       io_uring_register_file_alloc_range(3), io_uring_register(2),
       accept4(2)

COLOPHON         top

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liburing-2.2                 March 13, 2022      io_uring_prep_accept(3)

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