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Add (best-effort) stealing API to polling system
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Description
In https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect/discussions/3873#discussioncomment-8356851 we decided that we will support stealing for load-balancing. Thus, we should add an API to the polling system that allows completed I/O to be stolen. Not all polling systems will be able to implement this, but hopefully some of them can, such as io_uring, see https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect/discussions/3873#discussioncomment-7608898.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading discussions 3873, especially the linked comments, and inspect the polling system entry points. Determine the API needed to steal completed I/O and which polling implementations, such as io_uring, can support it; done means supported systems provide best-effort stealing while unsupported systems remain valid.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100