Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions
by GeekyBear on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:55PM
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If this were a big issue, people would have noticed a correspondingly large impact on Windows gaming performance.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions
by chupasaurus on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:54PM
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All GPU consumers in Windows (AFAIK even OS itself besides the bootloader) are userspace programs calling APIs hence userspace driver isn't a big problem.
The network stack in Windows is a part of the kernel and I haven't heard of userspace implementations of it like DPDK or PF_RING in Linux. GP is wrong about the performance of them though, as you can actually enhance it in a userspace mode (good article from Cloudflare [0]).
[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-use-the-linux-kernels-tcp...