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File I/O Bottlenecks and Mitigations

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What are the primary bottlenecks in performant file I/O operations, and how do concepts like zero-copy and asynchronous system calls mitigate them?

Discuss the operating-system path from application buffers to storage or a network socket, compare ordinary buffered I/O with zero-copy techniques such as sendfile(2), and explain how asynchronous APIs such as io_uring change waiting and concurrency. Include the trade-offs and circumstances where these techniques do not help.

Scope: Linux system calls and high-throughput server workloads.