Since the dawn of time, Linux has had to make do with inferior IO interfaces. Native Linux AIO supports only a niche application class (O_DIRECT), and even for that use case, it’s far too slow for modern storage. This talk will detail io_uring, a modern IO interface for Linux, that’s both fully featured and performant.

Categories: storage
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speaker: Jens AXBOE
year: 2019