ScyllaDB has introduced an asymmetric io_uring backend for Seastar, designed to offload I/O operations from application cores to dedicated I/O cores. This aims to reduce contention on application cores, minimize context switching overhead, and mitigate cache pollution by separating computation and I/O handling. The new backend contrasts with the existing symmetric io_uring and linux-aio backends, focusing on improving performance and latency predictability for compute-heavy workloads.
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