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		jitl 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust There are systems that move the NIC control to user space entirely. For example Snabb has an Intel 10g Ethernet controller driver that appears to use a ring buffer on DMA memory. https://github.com/snabbco/snabb/blob/master/src/apps/intel/...

1vuio0pswjnm7 77 days ago [–]

"(You could think of it as a [busybox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#Single_binary) for networking.)"

They sugggest thinking of busybox

But if using busybox, their Makefile will fail

Using toybox instead will work

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