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To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: Writing a multithreaded daemon process
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From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
Date: 07 Feb 2000 11:07:39 +0100
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Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> writes:

> If the daemon can somehow reside entirely inside the kernel, like
> NFS daemon, we can save those crossings.

Yes, but the whole point of having the daemon in userspace is that
it's *so* much easier to maintain. If you want to work on performance,
I suggest that you take a look at other parts of the system, like RX.

/Johan


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