io_uring
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io_uring (previously known as aioring) is a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations addressing performance issues with similar interfaces provided by functions like read()
/write()
or aio_read()
/aio_write()
etc. for operations on data accessed by file descriptors.[1][2]:ā2ā
Development is ongoing, worked on primarily by Jens Axboe at Meta.[1]