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IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13


Merged last week back toward the start of the Linux 6.13 merge window were a number of interesting IO_uring enhancements for this first major kernel version of 2025.

- Support for IO_uring ring resizing to avoid apps initially starting out with sizing the the busiest of usec-ases. Now the recommended approach is to start small and grow the ring as needed. - Support for hybrid I/O polling as a variant of strict IOPOLL but having an initial sleep delay.

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