On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:13:43 +0530 "Kedar Sovani" <kedar@calsoftinc.com> wrote: >Hi, And also that unlike the processes can be pre- empted,while the >kernel cannnot. In that particular case you may have performance >gains if you have something in the kernel, rather than being in the >user space, as it runs continuously. There's something obscure in what you said. If kernel control paths are not preemptable but you say they run continuosly maybe a simple kernel thread should block my uniprocessor CPU... Implementing everything in kernel could be useful for gaining performances but because there's no need to switch between User Mode and Kernel Mode which in some situations could lead to poor performances. Regards, Angelo Dell'Aera 'buffer' <buffer@users.sourceforge.net> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
