Samba io_uring Status Update and Implementation Design

Explore a technical conference talk from SDC 2023 that delves into utilizing Linux kernel's io_uring infrastructure to optimize Samba's network throughput performance. Learn about strategies for avoiding data copies and distributing CPU core load, backed by promising prototype results. Understand the current implementation status, proposed design architecture, and challenges faced in upstream integration. Presented by Stefan Metzmacher from SerNet/Samba-Team, discover how this solution addresses the growing demands on network throughput where traditional data copying methods become a bottleneck for single CPU core processing.