[2606.15137] uringscope: Portable, Low-Overhead Observability for io_uring

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[Submitted on 13 Jun 2026 (v1), last revised 9 Jul 2026 (this version, v2)]

Title:uringscope: Portable, Low-Overhead Observability for io_uring

Authors:Rajarshi Chowdhury<br>View a PDF of the paper titled uringscope: Portable, Low-Overhead Observability for io_uring, by Rajarshi Chowdhury

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Abstract:io_uring moves I/O submission and completion into shared-memory rings. This makes it fast, and it also makes it invisible. strace sees only the ring setup, and the kernel tracepoints that expose the request flow are not stable ABI, so the few tools built on them work only on narrow kernel ranges. We present uringscope, a single-binary, language-agnostic observability tool for io_uring built on CO-RE (Compile Once, Run Everywhere) eBPF. uringscope makes four contributions. The first is a precise model of the request lifecycle and a method to reconstruct per-request flows from kernel events. The second is a technique for attaching portably to an unstable tracepoint surface, using BTF-probed program variants, CO-RE field flavors, and position-independent reads. The third is an evaluation of the tradeoff between overhead and fidelity: on device-bound NVMe workloads uringscope's aggregate mode costs 0.7 to 9.9% of throughput, which is cheaper than every full-fidelity alternative we measured. The fourth is a lightweight correctness mode that reuses the same reconstruction to detect submission-boundary hazards, together with a built-in doctor that turns the measurements into named pathologies with evidence, for operators who are debugging a tail-latency incident rather than browsing histograms.

Comments:<br>8 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables

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Operating Systems (cs.OS); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Performance (cs.PF)

ACM classes:<br>D.4.8; C.4; D.2.5

Cite as:<br>arXiv:2606.15137 [cs.OS]

(or<br>arXiv:2606.15137v2 [cs.OS] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.15137

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Submission history<br>From: Rajarshi Chowdhury [view email]<br>[v1]<br>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:55:07 UTC (88 KB)

[v2]<br>Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:47:13 UTC (88 KB)

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