Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify
Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify
Posted Dec 21, 2008 12:05 UTC (Sun) by Ze (guest, #54182)In reply to: Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify by deater
Parent article: Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify
>Putting that all into the kernel would definitely be a losing proposition. Perfmon does it from userspace. Ingo's method would have it all in the kernel.
>This is a similar argument about whether video4linux should include format conversions into the kernel or not.
It seems to me that this is an argument in favour of a microkernel approach.
>This is a similar argument about whether video4linux should include format conversions into the kernel or not.
It seems to me that this is an argument in favour of a microkernel approach.
I mean we've already got loadable kernel modules , fuse , and a move to push usb drivers out of kernel space into libusb.
Personally I can see the day when someone leverages the kernel driver model code but puts it in a kernel based around a microkernel.