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On May 12, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Rick Jones wrote:

> Perhaps I'm trying to argue about the number of angels which can dance
> on the head of a pin, but isn't mitigating interrupt rates something
> that NICs and their drivers (and NAPI in the context of Linux) been
> doing for years?
>=20
> Or are you using "interrupt" to refer to the entire trip up the =
protocol
> stack and not just "interupts?"

It's the stack up to the API to the application, which of course =
receives the data when it reads the socket.=20=