Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux is a MicroKernal? [was Re: is Linux obsolete?] | Date | Fri, 28 May 1999 14:15:22 -0700 | From | "G. Allen Morris III" <> |
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>>>"Vishal Rao" said: > isnt linux a micro-kernel? i would think so! if we can config it to be a > cool 400k in size with loadabel modules?
Linux modules are in the same address space as the kernel. In a micro-kernel ``modules'' are in their own address space. This is why micro-kernels are slower than traditional kernels.
It is because of this slowness that micro-kernels are sometimes very large, as in the case of NT. To speed up a micro-kernel you put the more important parts into the kernel proper.
--------------------------------- G. Allen Morris III
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