[Twisted-Python] reactor for Linux io_uring

[Barry Scott]

On Tuesday, 5 January 2021 13:38:11 GMT Hynek Schlawack wrote:
> >> What's more interesting is that io_uring accepts files as 
> >> well as network/pipe handles: avoiding the need for threads.
> > 
> > What threads? Why do you call out file FDs different from socket FDs?
> > 
> > The point of io_uring is to avoid transitions between user and kernel right?
> > Nothing to do with thread.
> > 
> > In current twisted you can run complex network code without threads
> > already.
> 
> Because before io_uring there was no reliable way on Linux to do async file I/O and everybody is forced to use thread pools for it.

You mean like the way that opening a file can block as the kernel walks the directories?

Barry