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Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://os.husseinnasser.com Linux I/O expert and subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has submitted all of the IO_uring feature updates ahead of the imminent Linux 6.10 merge window. In this video I explore this with a focus on what zerocopy. 0:00 Intro 0:30 IO_uring gets faster 2:00 What is io_uring 7:00 How Normal Copying Work 12:00 How Zero Copy Works 13:50 ZeroCopy and TLS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-IO_uring https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/[email protected]/?s=09

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