Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: Running user processes in kernel mode; Java and .NET support in kernel | Date | Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:53:28 +0300 |
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On Saturday 16 October 2004 15:59, Simon Kissane wrote: > Hi > > Having posted the below to this list, Denis Vlasenko pointed out to me > (in an email) that I should have said "user<->kernel" switch, not > context switch. Yep, my mistake. He argues that is not that big. Of > course its no where near as big as a context switch. But its still > something. > > Also, I found a website by someone who had this idea before me (and > unlike me, actually implemented it!). > "Kernel Mode Linux" by Toshiyuki Maeda > http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tosh/kml/ > Main difference is, that rather thinking in terms of Java or Mono > support, he is thinking in terms of another system he calls "Typed > Assembly Language". Same basic idea though...
Nice page. Doubly nice considering that they have working code.
However, it does not mention how much of a speedup they achieved. -- vda
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