i would just love to see that exo kernel from MIT in practice some day in some OS.. i think the research is from the nineties, isnt?

Also, netmap from freebds was the first thing that come to my head, as a relief from the IO bottleneck from moderns systems..

As in the original C10k, freebsd to the rescue here.. since it was the first OS with the kqueue interface.. and now is netmap.. the numbers from the speedup in the original paper are astounding