Re: [PATCHSET v1] io_uring IO interface

On 9 Jan 2019, at 11:00, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:56:29AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:

quoted

After some arm twisting from Christoph, I finally caved and divorced 
the
aio-poll patches from aio/libaio itself. The io_uring interface 
itself
is useful and efficient, and after rebasing all the new goodies on 
top
of that, there was little reason to retail the aio connection.

Hence io_uring was born. This is what I previously called scqring for
aio, but now as a standalone entity. Patch #5 adds the core of this
interface, but in short, it has two main data structures:

Please can we call it something that looks a little less like 
io_urine?
aio_ring?  io_ring?  ring_io?

We must be using the same fonts, I've been harassing Jens with jokes 
about this for days.  But, I totally missed the link between io_uring 
and https://twitter.com/axboe/status/927571366085246976 until just now.  
It's clear that Jens has been planning this for over a year, and he was 
just waiting for us to catch on.


Really though, io_uring is growing on me.  The kernel is full of rings 
and it does help set it apart.

-chris