Low Overhead Interrupt Handling with SMT Threads
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[4] introduces the Click modular router. Click is a software based router that is composed of flexible software modules. Click is designed to run on commodity hardware and in commodity operating systems. Click provides a motivation for our interrupt handling work as Click typifies the overhead problems with traditional OS interrupts. Click removes the interrupt handling completely, opting instead for a polling approach.
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