Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 07:37:28 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se Subject: Re: Writing a multithreaded daemon process Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000207073617.4655A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <xof4sble36c.fsf@blubb.pdc.kth.se>
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On 7 Feb 2000, Johan Danielsson wrote: > 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. The RX part seems to deal with RPC. I do not see the reason why it can improve performance. Maybe it is some Asynchronous RPC? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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