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wild_eggyesterday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

It's been a while but why is uring not helpful for larger buffers? I'd think the zero-copy I/O capabilities would make it more helpful for larger payloads, not less


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Veservyesterday at 6:07 PM

uring supports zero-copy, but is not a copy-reduction mechanism; it is a syscall-reduction mechanism. Large buffers mean less syscalls to start with, so less benefit.