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by kyaghmour 1380 days ago
I attended Josh's talk earlier this week at LPC. As I told Josh yesterday in the hallway track, I've been attending Linux conferences for 20+ years and often times some topics keep coming back and you can see the specialization. But in this case, I was completely blown away. This is a totally new approach to an old problem. I mean, fork() was invented in the '70's and aside from threads and clone(), in Linux, there really hasn't been any innovation in this space over the years. I look forward to seeing what else gets io_uring'ed following this model.
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I hope I/O write queues at some point. Being able to inject I/O barriers relevant to the I/O stream instead of a system-wide barrier can let you write some higher efficiency I/O.