OLS: A proposal for a new networking API

Posted Jul 27, 2006 3:02 UTC (Thu) by ianw (guest, #20143)
In reply to: OLS: A proposal for a new networking API by Los__D
Parent article: OLS: A proposal for a new networking API

Well, why not? We might call this a "userspace driver", and abstract it to a library.

Suddenly (with an IOMMU) this driver can not crash the system any more than any other userspace process. If it does crash, we have a much higher chance that we can just restart it.