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io_uring_prep_epoll_wait(3) liburing Manualio_uring_prep_epoll_wait(3)io_uring_prep_epoll_wait - prepare an epoll wait request
#include <sys/epoll.h>#include <liburing.h>void io_uring_prep_epoll_wait(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,intfd,struct epoll_event *events,intmaxevents,unsigned flags);"
Theio_uring_prep_epoll_wait(3) function prepares an epoll_wait request. The submission queue entrysqe is setup to wait on a maximum ofmaxevents events on the epoll file descriptor indicated byfd, and filling the received events into the memory pointed to byevents. This function prepares an asyncepoll_wait(2) request. See that man page for details. The use case is mostly for legacy event loops, where certain file descriptors may still be using epoll for readiness notifications. Normally this would necessitate using epoll_wait with the io_uring fd added to that set as well, which is suboptimal as epoll doesn't provide the same kind of fine grained batch control and wakeup reductions that io_uring does. By using io_uring to read epoll events, the event loop can be entirely switched to io_uring, and reap the benefits of batch waiting and context switch reductions.
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The CQEres field will contain the result of the operation. See the related man page for details on possible values. Note that where synchronous system calls will return-1on failure and seterrno to the actual error value, io_uring never useserrno. Instead it returns the negatederrno directly in the CQEres field.
io_uring_get_sqe(3),io_uring_submit(3),epoll_wait(2)
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