Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-01T18:38:16Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:35:50AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > Wrong math. That's 330 million dollars for each compat more each year to
> > fund more Linux development and make us all rich...
>
> Speaking only for myself: on the technical side I don't think you can't be much
> faster than moving the performance critical services into the kernel and by
> skipping the copies (infact I also think that for fileserving skipping the
> copies and making sendfile to work and to work in zero copy will be enough).
> So I don't think losing robusteness this way can be explained in any technical
> way and no, it's not by showing me money that you'll convince me that's a good
> idea.
>
> Andrea

This would help, but not as much as full ring 0.

Jeff

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