Redesigned workqueues for io_uring
Redesigned workqueues for io_uring
[Kernel] Posted Oct 25, 2019 16:16 UTC (Fri) by corbet
The io_uring mechanism is a relatively new interface for asynchronous I/O; it first appeared in the 5.1 kernel in May. Since then, though, it has quickly grown in capabilities and in users; now it appears that it is outgrowing some of the kernel infrastructure that supports it. Thus, we have a proposal from Jens Axboe (the io_uring maintainer) for a new workqueue subsystem for io_uring that hints at some interesting plans for the future.