On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:23:24 -0700, Dave Taht said: > In particular, I'd *really love* to rip most of the network stack out > of the kernel and into userspace. And I really like the idea of > writable hardware that can talk to virtual memory from userspace (the > zynq can) To misquote Lost Boys, "One thing about living in a microkernel I never could stomach, all the damn context switches." Or were you thinking going entirely the opposite direction and offloading to ever-smarter network cards, sort of a combo of segment offload and zero-copy, on steroids no less?