• [$] A generic ring buffer for the kernel

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Jun 6 16:15:05 2024
    [$] A generic ring buffer for the kernel

    Date:
    Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:05:29 +0000

    Description:
    The kernel's user-space ABI does not lack for ring buffers; they have been defined for subsystems like BPF , io_uring , perf ,
    and tracing , for
    example. Naturally, each of those ring buffers is unique, with no common interface between them. The natural response to this ABI proliferation is,
    of course, to add yet another ring buffer as the generic option; that is
    the intent of this
    patch series from Kent Overstreet adding a new set of system calls for
    ring buffers.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/976836/


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