On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 5:53 PM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
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> This pull request adds support for a new IO interface, io_uring.
> io_uring allows an application to communicate with the kernel through
> two rings, the submission queue (SQ) and completion queue (CQ) ring.
> This allows for very efficient handling of IOs, see the v5 posting for
> some basic numbers:
Having just looked at the bugs in fs/aio.c and not finding a lot of
users of *that*, and absolutely zero actual test-cases, I'm actually
less than thrilled to see a new interface with the same behavior.
So I would want to see some test programs that actually use this.
Perhaps as part of tools/testing/?
Linus
