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by zekica 1344 days ago
Worse, IP package sizes didn't grow at all. So it would require 200 000 context switches per second if you don't want to add code bundling packets kernel-side and dispatching them a-la Nagle's algorithm. This is both error-prone and adds latency. Even worse, trampolines and other mitigations make it so switches clear CPU cache.