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:
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