io_uring_register_ring_fd - register a ring file descriptor
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Description
io_uring_register_ring_fd(3) registers the file descriptor of the ring. Whenever io_uring_enter(2) is called to submit request or wait for completions, the kernel must grab a reference to the file descriptor. If the application using io_uring is threaded, the file table is marked as shared, and the reference grab and put of the file descriptor count is more expensive than it is for a non-threaded application. Similarly to how io_uring allows registration of files, this allow registration of the ring file descriptor itself. This reduces the overhead of the io_uring_enter(2) system call. If an application using liburing is threaded, then an application should call this function to register the ring descriptor when a ring is set up. See NOTES for restrictions when a ring is shared. Available since kernel 5.18.
Name
io_uring_register_ring_fd - register a ring file descriptor
Notes
When the ring descriptor is registered, it is stored internally in the structio_uring structure. For
applications that share a ring between threads, for example having one thread do submits and another reap
events, then this optimization cannot be used as each thread may have a different index for the
registered ring fd.
Return Value
Returns 1 on success, indicating that one file descriptor was registered, or -errno on error.
See Also
io_uring_unregister_ring_fd(3), io_uring_register_files(3) liburing-2.2 March 11, 2022 io_uring_register_ring_fd(3)
Synopsis
#include<liburing.h>intio_uring_register_ring_fd(structio_uring*ring);
