One of my all time favorites has been the Jefferey Mogul paper on Receive Livelock: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2008/readings/mogul96usenix.pdf https://pdo

One of my all time favorites has been the Jefferey Mogul paper on Receive Livelock: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2008/readings/mogul96usenix.pdf https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2008/readings/mogul96usenix... I read it first as a normal CS paper, but later started seeing it as a commentary on an extremely busy work life. Right there in the first paragraph: "... receive livelock, in which the system spends all its time processing interrupts, to the exclusion of other tasks..." Does this remind you of anything?