Implementation of AsynchronousFileChannel using io_uring API

[Andrey Lomakin]

Hi Alan.
Thank you for providing the update.

I am not so interested in whether it will be Async or classic file channel
as the fact that implementation will not suffer from thread pinning and
will use OS mechanics as much as possible.
Looking forward to seeing those changes in upcoming releases :-)



On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 10:02 AM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 18/11/2021 06:33, Andrey Lomakin wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> > The article described the state of the project Loom announced plans to
> > implement AsynchronousFileChannel using io_uring API.
> > Unfortunately, I did not find any further information about the state of
> > this implementation.
> > Could you provide an update on whether such implementation was completed?
> I suspect this is the "State of Loom", May 2020 edition, is that right?
> For buffered file I/O it outlines two phases, short term to compensate
> for the pinning, later to make use of OS mechanism where possible. So
> yes, the intention is to come back to an io_uring implementation of
> FileChannel and java.io, just not in the first release.
> AsynchronousFileChannel provides an async API so not directly
> interesting to this project. It could potentially be re-implemented
> using io_uring, independent of this project. The draft JEP for virtual
> threads [1] has a work-in-progress summary of the core of a possible
> first release.
>
> -Alan
>
> [1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8277131
>


-- 
Best regards,
Andrey Lomakin.