Add basic README

Mostly for the purposes of github

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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+liburing
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+This is the liburing library. liburing provides helpers to setup and
+teardown io_uring instances, and also a simplified interface for
+applications that don't need (or want) to deal with the full kernel
+side implementation.
+
+For more info on io_uring, please see:
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+http://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf
+
+Jens Axboe 2019-08-05