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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by senderista on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:23PM (#46370182)
io_uring makes synchronous syscalls async simply by offloading them to a pool of kernel threads, just like people have done for decades in userspace.
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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by layla5alive on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:32PM (#46370760)
It's not the async part, it's the not invoking the function part - io_uring replaces syscalls with producer consumer ring buffers.
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