diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 593f780..39a0b0e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1368,6 +1368,7 @@ checksum = "301abaae475aa91687eb82514b328ab47a211a533026cb25fc3e519b86adfc3c"
 name = "uring-common"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
  "io-uring 0.6.0",
  "libc",
 ]
diff --git a/tokio-epoll-uring/Cargo.toml b/tokio-epoll-uring/Cargo.toml
index bb809e2..07e12a8 100644
--- a/tokio-epoll-uring/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-epoll-uring/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ thiserror = "1.0.44"
 tokio = "1.29.1"
 tokio-util = "0.7.8"
 tracing = "0.1.37"
-uring-common = { path = "../uring-common" }
+uring-common = { path = "../uring-common" , features = [ "bytes" ] }
 nix = "0.26.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/uring-common/Cargo.toml b/uring-common/Cargo.toml
index 8f41d16..6b9823b 100644
--- a/uring-common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/uring-common/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ license = "MIT" # the same as tokio-uring at the time we forked it
 
 [dependencies]
 libc = "0.2.80"
+bytes = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 io-uring = "0.6.0"
diff --git a/uring-common/src/ext/impl_from_any_iobuf_for_slice.rs b/uring-common/src/ext/impl_from_any_iobuf_for_slice.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a64ba8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uring-common/src/ext/impl_from_any_iobuf_for_slice.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+use crate::buf::{IoBuf, Slice};
+
+impl<B: IoBuf> From<B> for Slice<B> {
+    fn from(value: B) -> Self {
+        let len = value.bytes_init();
+        Slice::new(value, 0, len)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/uring-common/src/ext/impl_iobuf_for_array.rs b/uring-common/src/ext/impl_iobuf_for_array.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a2baaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uring-common/src/ext/impl_iobuf_for_array.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+unsafe impl<const N: usize> crate::buf::IoBuf for [u8; N] {
+    fn stable_ptr(&self) -> *const u8 {
+        self.as_ptr()
+    }
+
+    fn bytes_init(&self) -> usize {
+        self.len()
+    }
+
+    fn bytes_total(&self) -> usize {
+        self.len()
+    }
+}
diff --git a/uring-common/src/ext/mod.rs b/uring-common/src/ext/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35ad527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uring-common/src/ext/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pub mod impl_from_any_iobuf_for_slice;
+pub mod impl_iobuf_for_array;
diff --git a/uring-common/src/lib.rs b/uring-common/src/lib.rs
index 8153c52..4eb1fe3 100644
--- a/uring-common/src/lib.rs
+++ b/uring-common/src/lib.rs
@@ -7,3 +7,7 @@ pub mod io_fd;
 
 #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 pub use io_uring;
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+pub use libc;
+
+pub mod ext;