OsmoDevCon 2024: "High-performance I/O using io_uring via osmo_io"
I've co-presented a talk (together with Andreas Eversberg High-performance I/O using io_uring via osmo_io as part of the OsmoDevCon 2024 conference on Open Source Mobile Communications.
Traditional socket I/O via read/write/recvfrom/sendto/recvmsg/sendmsg and friends creates a very high system call load. A highly-loaded osmo-bsc spends most of its time in syscall entry and syscall exit.
io_uring is a modern Linux kernel mechanism to avoid this syscall overhead. We have introduced the osmo_io`API to libosmocore as a generic back-end for non-blocking/asynchronous I/O and a back-end for our classic `osmo_fd / poll approach as well as a new backend for io_uring.
The talk will cover
a very basic io_uring introduction
a description of the osmo_io API
the difficulties porting from osmo_fd to osmo_io
status of porting various sub-systems over to osmo_io
You can find the video recording at https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcon2024-209-high-performance-i-o-using-iouring-via-osmoio