> We've all seen the arguments about the in-kernel HTTP daemons and whatnot. I tend to be on the side that says that more things should be pulled out. I always

> We've all seen the arguments about the in-kernel HTTP daemons and whatnot. I tend to be on the side that says that more things should be pulled out. I always wondered if a lot of components like this could be either sped up, or moved out of the kernel, using a zero-copy messaging system based on splice() / vmsplice() in the Linux kernel (which works by page table remapping as far as I understand). I guess the prime candidate would be device drivers.