[Bloat] high speed networking from userspace

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:03:57 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> User space networking works well for single application be it routing,
> bridging, network trading, or single appliance. It doesn't work on a
> multi-application environment (ie desktop). The gain is only because
> the userspace code can choose to do less, but do it faster. So if you
> want full stack, and firewall; don't bother.

Thanks for the additional comments, that's why I wrote "see netdev
discussions". In sum: if you strip, disable, swap-out functionality you can
gain speed/latency - sounds like a universally valid statement ...

HGN