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Re:Protocol Wars by ElectricalUnion on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:11PM (#35906918)
Or the kernels becomes even less of a monolith on all fronts and more userland-like.

Both io_uring and eBPF would allow us to handle more complex tasks inside the kernel, reducing context switch losses yet still allowing the benefits of a upgrade-able structure without having to upgrade the OS or even the kernel itself.

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Re:Protocol Wars by doctor_eval on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:32PM (#35909792)
Yeah. It strikes me that the lack of a stable Linux kernel ABI is part of the reason why we can’t easily upgrade bits of it. Upgrading a kernel module would be a good solution (could even be done by applications) but IIUC its infeasible.

But still, it seems conceivable that a networking kernel module could talk exclusively to an adaptor shim that is part of the kernel.

idk, I actually haven’t so much as compiled a kernel since the late 90s, so I’m pretty much talking out the wrong end :)

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