Building a High-Performance Database Buffer Pool in Zig with io_uring and new Fixed-Buffer mode

[iron jay]

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/io-uring-fixed-bufferpool-zig

Wanted to share a post I finished today, in case anyone finds it interesting/useful
I am not very familiar with Zig (and had to ask for help here at some points), so if the code is poor, please tell me so I can fix it 👍

[peak knot]

fwiw your Zig code looks pretty good. The only somewhat advanced tip I'd offer is that your IoUringBufferPoolManager might want to take num pages and page size as a comptime parameter so this is more reusable (if you wanted0.

[tranquil bear]

Nice. Someone should create readzig.net, like http://readrust.net

[peak knot]

And I don't know much about io_uring so this was fun to read 🙂

[boreal shuttle]

There is https://zig.news
Looks similar to it

[tranquil bear]

Hmm I see