no*, and as you've discovered, the skbufs allocated by the kernel will often be the limiting factor for a highly concurrent socket server on linux. * I don't k

no*, and as you've discovered, the skbufs allocated by the kernel will often be the limiting factor for a highly concurrent socket server on linux. * I don't know if someone has created some experimental implementation somewhere. It would require a significant overhaul of the TCP implementation in the kernel. edit: check out this sibling thread about userland TCP. I think this is a more interesting/likely direction to explore in. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31215569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31215569