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Oh, as a guy which was using DPDK like technology that do busy-poll and bypass kernel to process network packets, I must say may be much power have be wasted...



Standard practice in all trading applications is to busy poll the NIC using a kernel bypass technology.

Typically saves 2-3 microseconds going through the kernel network stack.




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