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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-01-29 20:40:23 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-01-29 20:40:23 +0300
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Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: "Add support for io-uring communication between kernel and userspace using IORING_OP_URING_CMD (Bernd Schubert). Following features enable gains in performance compared to the regular interface: - Allow processing multiple requests with less syscall overhead - Combine commit of old and fetch of new fuse request - CPU/NUMA affinity of queues Patches were reviewed by several people, including Pavel Begunkov, io-uring co-maintainer" * tag 'fuse-update-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: fuse: prevent disabling io-uring on active connections fuse: enable fuse-over-io-uring fuse: block request allocation until io-uring init is complete fuse: {io-uring} Prevent mount point hang on fuse-server termination fuse: Allow to queue bg requests through io-uring fuse: Allow to queue fg requests through io-uring fuse: {io-uring} Make fuse_dev_queue_{interrupt,forget} non-static fuse: {io-uring} Handle teardown of ring entries fuse: Add io-uring sqe commit and fetch support fuse: {io-uring} Make hash-list req unique finding functions non-static fuse: Add fuse-io-uring handling into fuse_copy fuse: Make fuse_copy non static fuse: {io-uring} Handle SQEs - register commands fuse: make args->in_args[0] to be always the header fuse: Add fuse-io-uring design documentation fuse: Move request bits fuse: Move fuse_get_dev to header file fuse: rename to fuse_dev_end_requests and make non-static
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=======================================
+FUSE-over-io-uring design documentation
+=======================================
+
+This documentation covers basic details how the fuse
+kernel/userspace communication through io-uring is configured
+and works. For generic details about FUSE see fuse.rst.
+
+This document also covers the current interface, which is
+still in development and might change.
+
+Limitations
+===========
+As of now not all requests types are supported through io-uring, userspace
+is required to also handle requests through /dev/fuse after io-uring setup
+is complete. Specifically notifications (initiated from the daemon side)
+and interrupts.
+
+Fuse io-uring configuration
+===========================
+
+Fuse kernel requests are queued through the classical /dev/fuse
+read/write interface - until io-uring setup is complete.
+
+In order to set up fuse-over-io-uring fuse-server (user-space)
+needs to submit SQEs (opcode = IORING_OP_URING_CMD) to the /dev/fuse
+connection file descriptor. Initial submit is with the sub command
+FUSE_URING_REQ_REGISTER, which will just register entries to be
+available in the kernel.
+
+Once at least one entry per queue is submitted, kernel starts
+to enqueue to ring queues.
+Note, every CPU core has its own fuse-io-uring queue.
+Userspace handles the CQE/fuse-request and submits the result as
+subcommand FUSE_URING_REQ_COMMIT_AND_FETCH - kernel completes
+the requests and also marks the entry available again. If there are
+pending requests waiting the request will be immediately submitted
+to the daemon again.
+
+Initial SQE
+-----------::
+
+ | | FUSE filesystem daemon
+ | |
+ | | >io_uring_submit()
+ | | IORING_OP_URING_CMD /
+ | | FUSE_URING_CMD_REGISTER
+ | | [wait cqe]
+ | | >io_uring_wait_cqe() or
+ | | >io_uring_submit_and_wait()
+ | |
+ | >fuse_uring_cmd() |
+ | >fuse_uring_register() |
+
+
+Sending requests with CQEs
+--------------------------::
+
+ | | FUSE filesystem daemon
+ | | [waiting for CQEs]
+ | "rm /mnt/fuse/file" |
+ | |
+ | >sys_unlink() |
+ | >fuse_unlink() |
+ | [allocate request] |
+ | >fuse_send_one() |
+ | ... |
+ | >fuse_uring_queue_fuse_req |
+ | [queue request on fg queue] |
+ | >fuse_uring_add_req_to_ring_ent() |
+ | ... |
+ | >fuse_uring_copy_to_ring() |
+ | >io_uring_cmd_done() |
+ | >request_wait_answer() |
+ | [sleep on req->waitq] |
+ | | [receives and handles CQE]
+ | | [submit result and fetch next]
+ | | >io_uring_submit()
+ | | IORING_OP_URING_CMD/
+ | | FUSE_URING_CMD_COMMIT_AND_FETCH
+ | >fuse_uring_cmd() |
+ | >fuse_uring_commit_fetch() |
+ | >fuse_uring_commit() |
+ | >fuse_uring_copy_from_ring() |
+ | [ copy the result to the fuse req] |
+ | >fuse_uring_req_end() |
+ | >fuse_request_end() |
+ | [wake up req->waitq] |
+ | >fuse_uring_next_fuse_req |
+ | [wait or handle next req] |
+ | |
+ | [req->waitq woken up] |
+ | <fuse_unlink() |
+ | <sys_unlink() |
+
+
+
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
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@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations.
hpfs
fuse
fuse-io
+ fuse-io-uring
inotify
isofs
nilfs2