[$] NAPI polling in kernel threads
by corbet from on (#58YXZ)
Systems that manage large amounts of network traffic end up dedicating asignificant part of their available CPU time to the network stack itself.Much of this work is done in software-interrupt context, which can beproblematic in a number of ways. That may be about to change, though,once thispatch series posted by Wei Wang is merged into the mainline.