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On Linux, it's already a NVMe driver option to enable polling for (high priority) IO completion rather than sleeping until an interrupt. The latency of handling an interrupt and doing a couple of context switches is higher than the best-case latency for fast SSDs. The io_uring userspace API also has a polling mode.



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