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jelderlast Tuesday at 11:49 PM3 repliesview on HN

I just today realized io_uring is meant to be read as "I.O.U. Ring" which perfectly describes how it works.


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checker659last Wednesday at 6:07 PM

I/O Userspace Ring (ring buffers)

koakuma-chanlast Wednesday at 1:41 PM

If it was meant to be read that way, it should have been named iou_ring.

cpburns2009last Wednesday at 2:16 PM

Are you sure it's not I.O. µ (micro) ring?

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