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How is it different from Netty [1] / Reactor [2] ?

It uses Thread-Per-Core architecture where Netty/Reactor use thread-pools to process work and have dedicated threads for selecting from network.

So CPU affinity provides further optimization ? I am thinking less context switches.

Yes, exactly since it allows for fewer context switches and cache locality not only for the network packets but for disk I/O as well.