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by dijit 1343 days ago
Yes, the way Netflix and Co. are using Userspace drivers is by passing entire devices to a single application.

There's no general purpose IPC happening there.

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Netflix interestingly (rather than focusing on DPDK/user-space techniques) seems focused on increasing the throughput of kTLS on their CDN appliance boxes so they can simply sendfile(2) right out of VFS cache in kernel space for the bulk of the data plane. An alternative pathway to the same goal of increasing throughput by colocating your general data and your network stack state in the same context.