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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] readfile(2): a new syscall to make open/read/close faster
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On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 5:12 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
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> You should probably take a look at io_uring.  That has the level of
> complexity of this proposal and supports open/read/close along with many
> other opcodes.

Then glibc can implement readfile using io_uring and there is no need
for a new single-file readfile syscall.