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Re:Io_uring is not (only) a generic asynchronous syscall fac... by sunmag on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:59AM (#27688610)
Looks alot like nvme https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVMe_Overview.pdf
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Re:Io_uring is not (only) a generic asynchronous syscall fac... by jnwatson on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:58PM (#27693358)
It is actually the structure that most data-driven hardware devices use. A ring buffer of descriptors has been used from the early days of ethernet devices at least.
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