challenges of I/O uring integration

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challenges of I/O uring integration #182

Open nikomatsakis opened 3 years ago

nikomatsakis commented 3 years ago

Brief summary

I/O Uring integration has been much discussed, but we don't have any status quo stories talking about it.

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AustinWise commented 3 years ago

The Windows 11 preview has it's own version of an I/O uring API. This suggests that a design that takes into account I/O uring on Linux will also benefit Windows.

The only official documentation I have found is some headers in the SDK (ioringapi.h and ntioring_x.h). There is also a blog post on windows-internals.com.