Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:25:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:25:49 -0500 Received: from milsum.Biomed.McGill.CA ([132.206.111.48]:52996 "EHLO milsum.biomed.mcgill.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:25:39 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Christian Lavoie To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File copy system call proposal Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:25:35 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] In-Reply-To: <1007782956.355.2.camel@quinn.rcn.nmt.edu> In-Reply-To: <1007782956.355.2.camel@quinn.rcn.nmt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20011208042544Z285815-752+9588@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 07 December 2001 22:42, Quinn Harris wrote: You might be interested in reading about the MIT exokernel, who proposes much of the same thing you are... http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo.html ... and ends up saying that it's a _huge_ performance boost in several typical operations. -- Christian Lavoie clavoie@bmed.mcgill.ca - 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/