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You are assuming copying around buffers won't consume any cpu? Maybe it's perfectly fine, maybe it's not. But it needs some experiment before we can handwave it
by xfer 4y ago
You are assuming copying around buffers won't consume any cpu? Maybe it's perfectly fine, maybe it's not. But it needs some experiment before we can handwave it.
- boricj 4y agoTaken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200171#33203269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200171#33203269 This publication (http://www.minix3.org/docs/jorrit-herder/asci06.pdf http://www.minix3.org/docs/jorrit-herder/asci06.pdf) claims that MINIX3 could saturate a 1 Gb/s Ethernet link with an user-space network stack, with separate processes for the stack and the driver, on a rusty 32-bit micro-kernel that can't do SMP. In 2006.