Interestingly enough, polling is still preferred in some cases of low-latency networking, because the overhead of NIC interrupts can become significant under hi

Interestingly enough, polling is still preferred in some cases of low-latency networking, because the overhead of NIC interrupts can become significant under high utilization. Of course in those cases you're running on bare-metal with kernel bypass networking, so there's no user<->kernel switch like in poll