OpenOnload's spinning behavior is highly tunable and disabled by default. The default profile might appear to take some more CPU cycles, but really it's the sa

OpenOnload's spinning behavior is highly tunable and disabled by default. The default profile might appear to take some more CPU cycles, but really it's the same CPU cycles that the kernel would be using to operate the network stack (but across the kernel/userspace barrier and possibly on another core/socket/numanode, etc, introducing latency). It's a great article, but I'm surprised that the author introduces spinning and task-setting without noting CPU isolation (either with cgroups or isolcpus). Not doing so could introduce problems.