On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 13:05 +0100, +BigNose wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know if this is the right place to ask my question. If not, > please tell me where to put the question... > > I read in several places, that Linux 2.6 can be configured with no > Virtual Memory Support. But I couldn't find any such option in the > kernel config. The only option I found was to disable the Swapping. > But not the Virtual Memory System. > > I would like to disable the Virtual Memory System for an embedded > RTAI System, where latency is everything, and task-switching in an > MMU-Environment is slow... I think you have old data; a syscall is 500 cycles nowadays, and a full switch isn't much more than that... (but there is no way to run x86 mmuless, the "2.6 can run without mmu" is about hardware without an mmu ...) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
