The io_uring_prep_recvmsg(3) function prepares a recvmsg request. The submission queue entry sqe is setup
to use the file descriptor fd to start receiving the data indicated by msg with the recvmsg(2) defined
flags in the flags argument.
This function prepares an async recvmsg(2) request. See that man page for details on the arguments
specified to this prep helper.
The multishot version allows the application to issue a single receive request, which repeatedly posts a
CQE when data is available. It requires the IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT flag to be set and no MSG_WAITALL flag to
be set. Therefore each CQE will take a buffer out of a provided buffer pool for receiving. The
application should check the flags of each CQE, regardless of its result. If a posted CQE does not have
the IORING_CQE_F_MORE flag set then the multishot receive will be done and the application should issue a
new request.
Unlike recvmsg(2), multishot recvmsg will prepend a structio_uring_recvmsg_out which describes the
layout of the rest of the buffer in combination with the initial structmsghdr submitted with the
request. See io_uring_recvmsg_out(3) for more information on accessing the data.
Multishot variants are available since kernel 6.0.
After calling this function, additional io_uring internal modifier flags may be set in the SQE ioprio
field. The following flags are supported:
IORING_RECVSEND_POLL_FIRST
If set, io_uring will assume the socket is currently empty and attempting to receive data will be
unsuccessful. For this case, io_uring will arm internal poll and trigger a receive of the data
when the socket has data to be read. This initial receive attempt can be wasteful for the case
where the socket is expected to be empty, setting this flag will bypass the initial receive
attempt and go straight to arming poll. If poll does indicate that data is ready to be received,
the operation will proceed.
Can be used with the CQE IORING_CQE_F_SOCK_NONEMPTY flag, which io_uring will set on CQEs after a
recv(2) or recvmsg(2) operation. If set, the socket still had data to be read after the operation
completed. Both these flags are available since 5.19.