That strive for microsecond-scale latencies for application level communication continues. Most purveyors of microsec solutions move datapath processing to user space so as to avoid pre-emption and have better control of latencies. Kostis Kaffes and Christos Kozyrakis argue that preemptive scheduling is infact _a good thing_. In this talk, they will describe their approach: Shinjuku Kostis and Christos will also raise the question and discuss whether these user space approaches are incrementally building full-featured operating system kernels. More info: https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-microsec Gentle reminder to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal