It's also worth noting that io_uring has had at most 10-15 engineer-years worth of performance tuning vs. the many (?) hundreds of years that epoll has received. I work with Jens, Pavel, and others and can confidently say that low-queue-depth perf parity with epoll is an important goal to the effort
As an aside, it's great to see high praise from an spdk maintainer. One of the big reasons for doing io_uring in the first place was that it was impossible to compete in terms of performance with total bypass unless you changed the syscall approach.
As an aside, it's great to see high praise from an spdk maintainer. One of the big reasons for doing io_uring in the first place was that it was impossible to compete in terms of performance with total bypass unless you changed the syscall approach.