The 1.3.0 release of the libblkio high-performance block device I/O library is out. libblkio provides an API that abstracts various storage interfaces that are efficient but costly to integrate into applications including io_uring, NVMe uring_cmd, virtio-blk-pci, vdpa-blk, and more. Switching between them is very easy using libblkio and gives you flexibility to target both kernel and userspace storage interfaces in your application.
Linux packaging work has progressed over the past few months. Arch Linux, Fedora, and CentOS Stream now carry libblkio packages and more will come in the future. This makes it easier to use libblkio in your applications because you don't need to compile it from source yourself.
In this release the vdpa-blk storage interface support has been improved. vpda-blk is a virtio-blk-based storage interface designed for hardware implementation, typically on Data Processing Unit (DPU) PCIe adapters. Applications can use vdpa-blk to talk directly to the hardware from userspace. This approach can be used either as part of a hypervisor like QEMU or simply to accelerate I/O-bound userspace applications. QEMU uses libblkio to make vdpa-blk devices available to guests.
The downloads and release notes are available here.
