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io_uring

io_uring is a Linux asynchronous I/O interface that exchanges requests and completion results through shared submission and completion rings.

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Batching can reduce per-request submission overhead; it does not establish persistence. The completion result belongs to the specific operation, not to the ring as a whole. For file updates, identify the write set and its synchronization protocol. [1]

Relations

related
io-uring-cqe, io-uring-linked-requests, io-uring-drain, fsync, queue-depth

Advantages

Limitations

Citations

  1. liburing: io_uring(7), result reporting and shared rings. (accessed 2026-10-14)
  2. io_uring: completion is not a durable commit (accessed 2026-10-14)

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