Paper on device polling and packet capture performance

[Petri Helenius]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> I'd be happy to review other patches for this. My personal feeling though
>
>is that the actual performance increase may not be that great, but it's
>a case of someone implementing it and doing the math.
>
>  
>
Writing to memory, specially on SMP systems, is very expensive. So 
eliminating
copies will give huge performance benefits. Where bpf can go hardly 500Mbps
on dual CPU machine, memory mapped capture will reach 1.5-2.0Gbps.

Pete