> Without concrete answers that succinctly describe this behaviour it feels impossible to see beyond the hype and get to the actual trade-offs being made. This

> Without concrete answers that succinctly describe this behaviour it feels impossible to see beyond the hype and get to the actual trade-offs being made. This article seems to be an attempt to succinctly describe the high level goals of io_uring to people who don't know, and in that respect I find it succeeded. The questions you're asking seem more related to how io_uring (or its API) are implemented, which is something else. I would hope anyone deciding whether to build something on io_uring would then do more detailed research on the trade-offs before pushing anything to production. I appreciated the brevity personally...