in today's refactoring call, we discussed the topic of async
reads/writes for file-based backends, using zipper's optional_yield
argument
we can start by trying out asio's new asio::stream_file[1] and
asio::random_access_file[2] classes based on io_uring. both classes
can be constructed with an existing file descriptor using the
'native_handle_type' overload
an example read function:
// read into the given buffer, returning the number of bytes read.
throws on errors
size_t read_some(asio::stream_file& file, std::span<char> buffer,
optional_yield y)
{
if (y) {
return file.async_read_some(buffer, y.get_yield_context());
} else {
return file.read_some(buffer);
}
}
the synchronous case probably won't be that simple, since we won't
have an asio::io_context to construct the asio::stream_file with. we
might just fall back to the read system call there
[1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_79_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/stream_file.html
[2] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_79_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/random_access_file.html
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