The Linux Kernel is getting fatter day by day. Don't 'cook' it into a buttery 'popcorn'... Kashif On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 15:48, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:35:52PM +0100, Lars Olsson wrote: > > I'm implementing a neural network (executing in kernel > > space because of performance reasons) > > I've heard "performance reasons" meaning things should be implemented in > the kernel over and over again, and just once, I'd like to try to find > out _why_ implementing something in the kernel will improve your > application's performance. > > You still need to yield the processor to the other $N processes running > on the system, you still need to answer interrupts.. The only way > implementing this in the kernel is if you can save on data copies across > protection boundaries. Since neural networks are inherently > compute-bound, I'd be surprised if you could see any performance > improvements by moving this into the kernel. > > Why move NN into the kernel? > > -- > http://www.wirex.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
