>The method identifies and quantifies the direct and indirect costs of asynchronous hardware interrupt requests (IRQ), the process by which packets are allocate

>The method identifies and quantifies the direct and indirect costs of asynchronous hardware interrupt requests (IRQ), the process by which packets are allocated, as a major source of overhead. It also proposes that a small modification of the Linux system would significantly improve the efficiency and performance of traditional kernel-based networking by up to 45%, without compromising operational effectiveness. Anyone have a breakdown of what this is exactly? As a former network engineer reading the article at first I thought they were dorking with packet sizes (nooooooooooo that's endless toil) but it appears that's not the case.