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    io_uring: add support for batch wait timeout · 1100c4a2
    Jens Axboe authored
    Waiting for events with io_uring has two knobs that can be set:
    
    1) The number of events to wake for
    2) The timeout associated with the event
    
    Waiting will abort when either of those conditions are met, as expected.
    
    This adds support for a third event, which is associated with the number
    of events to wait for. Applications generally like to handle batches of
    completions, and right now they'd set a number of events to wait for and
    the timeout for that. If no events have been received but the timeout
    triggers, control is returned to the application and it can wait again.
    However, if the application doesn't have anything to do until events are
    reaped, then it's possible to make this waiting more efficient.
    
    For example, the application may have a latency time of 50 usecs and
    wanting to handle a batch of 8 requests at the time. If it uses 50 usecs
    as the timeout, then it'll be doing 20K context switches per second even
    if nothing is happening.
    
    This introduces the notion of min batch wait time. If the min batch wait
    time expires, then we'll return to userspace if we have any events at all.
    If none are available, the general wait time is applied. Any request
    arriving after the min batch wait time will cause waiting to stop and
    return control to the application.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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