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Fwiw, a good portion of IO via io_uring is not executed via the threaded work queue anymore. Even with buffered file reads it's avoided for some common filesystems.

You're right of course that there are lots of cases (missing metadata, synchronous operation like extending files, ...) where it's all offloaded to the wq.






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