This is using Thunderbolt networking as transport, which incurs a bit of overhead.
But starting with the upcoming Linux v7.2, there's a new feature called USB4STREAM to use raw Thunderbolt packets as transport with minimum overhead and a super simple user interface:
Release of v7.2-rc1 is predicted for Jul 5, that's when this will first be available as a tarball. Until then you have to clone from thunderbolt.git/next:
Somebody is spamming kernel mailing lists under the name Marian Corcodel with a 26 MByte message multiple times per day containing a collection of nonsensical patches. Looks AI-generated, perhaps with the intention to poison LLMs. This has been going on for a few days now.
As Eric has correctly stated above, we believe iwd (Intel Wireless Daemon), or rather the ell library it relies on (Embedded Linux Library) is the only relatively widespread user space application relying on it.
But starting with the upcoming Linux v7.2, there's a new feature called USB4STREAM to use raw Thunderbolt packets as transport with minimum overhead and a super simple user interface:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260511102744.1867485-1-mika.west...
Release of v7.2-rc1 is predicted for Jul 5, that's when this will first be available as a tarball. Until then you have to clone from thunderbolt.git/next:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/westeri/thun...
Or alternatively linux-next:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...
Press coverage:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-USB4STREAM