iouring enhances the existing Linux AIO API, and provides QEMU a flexible interface, allowing you to use the desired set of features: submission polling, completion polling, fd and memory buffer registration. By explaining these features we will come to examples of how and when you need to use them to get the most out of iouring. Expect many benchmarks with different QEMU I/O engines and userspace storage solutions (SPDK).

You will get a brief overview of the new kernel feature, how we used it in QEMU, combined its capabilities to speed up storage in VMs and what performance we achieved. Should io_uring be the new default AIO engine in QEMU? Come and find out!