async: we need io_uring for Nim

[ringabout]

io_uring is a new asynchronous I/O API for Linux created by Jens Axboe from Facebook. It aims at providing an API without the limitations of the current select(2), poll(2), epoll(7) or aio(7) family of system calls, which we discussed in the previous section. Given that users of asynchronous programming models choose it in the first place for performance reasons, it makes sense to have an API that has very low performance overheads.

links

• https://unixism.net/loti
• std: add io_uring library ziglang/zig#6356
• (motivation) https://thenewstack.io/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolutionize-programming-in-linux/
• Welcome to Lord of the io_uring — Lord of the io_uring documentation
• The rapid growth of io_uring [LWN.net]
• Ringing in a new asynchronous I/O API [LWN.net]
• An Introduction to the io_uring Asynchronous I/O Framework | Oracle Linux Blog

Note: this one tallks about io_submit: io_submit: The epoll alternative you've never heard about