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Why isn't there generic batching syscall in Linux/BSD?
You're in luck, the Linux developers agree with you, and as of Linux 5.1 it includes the io_uring subsystem.
It works a bit differently from your design. It consists of a ring buffer for messages, the ...
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Why isn't there generic batching syscall in Linux/BSD?
I tried this on x86_64
Patch against 94836ecf1e7378b64d37624fbb81fe48fbd4c772:
(also here https://github.com/pskocik/linux/tree/supersyscall )
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/...
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