Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:34:32 -0700 (MST) | From | teunis <> | Subject | Re: threaded FS-drivers |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 10:04:42AM -0700, teunis wrote: > > > Actually - I was thinking of actual asynchronous FS-management... > > Where, say, a kernel thread was being used to manage the device rather > > than the local process... (as it is currently :) > > Reinvention of the microkernel?
Nah - but linux could do that afaik... who knows whether it would be worth it outside of, say, a hyper-database-system with dedicated drivers on an SMP system... but it should be doable :)
but then you could use tagged-queueing on SCSI and not have to worry about this all :] (finally did a little meandering through the kernel)
aside: Linux is a monolithic kernel of ... unique ... design - offering many advantages of a microkernel without all of the overhead and bloat *Grin*
G'day, eh? :) - Teunis
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