Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 25, 2003 10:58 PM
"Microkernels didn't prove themselves because of their inefficiency"
that's not correct - look at the l4 microkernel. They ran Linux 2.2 on the top and the performance loss was below 5-10%!
Old microkernel designs as Mach etc were inefficient but I think there is indeed a way to make them nearly as efficient as monolithic kernels while gaining enormous gains (debugging, simplicity and elegance).
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Re:yet another silver bullet ?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 25, 2003 10:58 PMthat's not correct - look at the l4 microkernel. They ran Linux 2.2 on the top and the performance loss was below 5-10%!
Old microkernel designs as Mach etc were inefficient but I think there is indeed a way to make them nearly as efficient as monolithic kernels while gaining enormous gains (debugging, simplicity and elegance).
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/
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