Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269281AbUJQTxk (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269272AbUJQTxk (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:53:40 -0400 Received: from 168.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.168]:43527 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269281AbUJQTxe (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:53:34 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Simon Kissane , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Running user processes in kernel mode; Java and .NET support in kernel Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:53:28 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <82fa66380410152111143f75ec@mail.gmail.com> <82fa6638041016055934097b80@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82fa6638041016055934097b80@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410172253.28215.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1126 Lines: 28 On Saturday 16 October 2004 15:59, Simon Kissane wrote: > Hi > > Having posted the below to this list, Denis Vlasenko pointed out to me > (in an email) that I should have said "user<->kernel" switch, not > context switch. Yep, my mistake. He argues that is not that big. Of > course its no where near as big as a context switch. But its still > something. > > Also, I found a website by someone who had this idea before me (and > unlike me, actually implemented it!). > "Kernel Mode Linux" by Toshiyuki Maeda > http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tosh/kml/ > Main difference is, that rather thinking in terms of Java or Mono > support, he is thinking in terms of another system he calls "Typed > Assembly Language". Same basic idea though... Nice page. Doubly nice considering that they have working code. However, it does not mention how much of a speedup they achieved. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/