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which are no different from app POV from kernel threads, or any threads for that matter.
the whole async stuff came up because context switch per event is way more expensive than just shoveling down a page of file descriptor state.
thus poll, kqueue, epoll, io_uring, whatever.
think of it as batch processing
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which are no different from app POV from kernel threads, or any threads for that matter.
the whole async stuff came up because context switch per event is way more expensive than just shoveling down a page of file descriptor state.
thus poll, kqueue, epoll, io_uring, whatever.
think of it as batch processing