Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-10-30T18:05:44Z

Chris Evans wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> > functionality that needs high performance completly in kernel? People
> > may need to write high performance network code for custom protocols,
> > this way they will end creating kernel modules with system-crashing
> > bugs, memory leaks and kernel buffer overflows (chroot+nobody+logging
> > won't work anymore). (plus they will get into pain while debugging)
>
> I'm glad _someone_ is connected to reality with regards the security
> implications of throwing loads of servers into kernel space.
>

If we implement a ring 0 Linux, all of this will remain intact with the
need to
port modules into the kernel at all.

Jeff

> Cheers
> Chris