From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the truth about Linux 2.4's RAM limitations?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:03:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4B3570.9090104@interactivesi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0107091250170.25061-100000@maus.spack.org> <20010710011755.M18653@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20010711014920.D31799@weta.f00f.org>
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>How does FreeBSD do this? What about other OSs? Do they map out most
>of userland on syscall entry and map it in as required for their
>equivalents to copy_to/from_user? (Taking the performance hit in doing
>so?)
>
I don't know about *BSD, but in Windows NT/2000, even drivers run in
virtual space. The OS is not monolithic, so address spaces are general
not "shared" as they are in Linux.
--
Timur Tabi
Interactive Silicon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-10 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-09 20:01 What is the truth about Linux 2.4's RAM limitations? Adam Shand
2001-07-09 21:15 ` Brian Gerst
2001-07-09 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-09 22:17 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-07-10 13:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 17:03 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2001-07-10 17:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-10 18:01 ` Timur Tabi
2001-07-10 18:08 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 18:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-10 19:26 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 23:56 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 20:19 ` Malcolm Beattie
2001-07-10 3:01 ` jlnance
2001-07-10 3:29 ` Michael Bacarella
2001-07-16 8:37 ` Ingo Oeser
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.32.0107091250170.25061-100000@maus.spack.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-07-09 21:03 ` Andi Kleen
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2001-07-09 21:29 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 17:01 ` Timur Tabi
2001-07-10 18:12 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 18:22 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-10 18:28 ` Brian Gerst
2001-07-10 18:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 19:35 ` Brian Gerst
2001-07-10 18:38 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 19:14 ` Mark H. Wood
2001-07-10 21:49 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-10 22:07 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-11 4:31 alad
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