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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> and for one of the most important IO 
> disciplines, networking, that is reality already.

Not 100% -- a few things in TCP/IP at least are blocking still.
Mostly relatively obscure things though.

Also the sockets model is currently incompatible with direct zero-copy RX/TX, 
which needs fixing.

-Andi