>Gain: no user-kernel process switches; no kernel call to poll completion; no data copying between processes; no interrupt transition
AFAIK that's may be implemented on existing Linux system using Intel DPDK or PF_RING (routing packets directly from NIC to mmap'ed memory in userspace), "maxcpus=" Linux boot directive (to run Linux kernel on one or two cores only), and "pthread_setaffinity_np()" call in user process (to run the process on other cores which will never be imterrupted by Linux kernel).
AFAIK that's may be implemented on existing Linux system using Intel DPDK or PF_RING (routing packets directly from NIC to mmap'ed memory in userspace), "maxcpus=" Linux boot directive (to run Linux kernel on one or two cores only), and "pthread_setaffinity_np()" call in user process (to run the process on other cores which will never be imterrupted by Linux kernel).