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[$] An io_uring-based user-space block driver
Monday August 8, 2022. 04:48 PM , from LWN.net
The addition of the ublk driver during the 6.0 merge window would have been
easy to miss; it was buried deeply within an io_uring pull request and is entirely devoid of any sort of documentation that might indicate why it merits a closer look. Ublk is intended to facilitate the implementation of high-performance block drivers in user space; to that end, it uses io_uring for its communication with the kernel. This driver is considered experimental for now; if it is successful, it might just be a harbinger of more significant changes to come to the kernel in the future.
https://lwn.net/Articles/903855/
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