From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 21 13:58:54 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC22837B809; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:58:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA62545; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:58:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Nate Williams , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:13:26 +1000." <00Jun22.065502est.115212@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: <62543.961621090@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <00Jun22.065502est.115212@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy write s: >Other areas: >- You don't want your webserver paging or swapping - so most of the VM > subsystem can be thrown away. >- Since all processes are the server, most of the uid-based security > mechanisms can be thrown out. >- Dropping the distinction between userspace and kernel space removes > the need to support ring-transitions (which are quite expensive). ...and of course you want to write it in assembler so the C compiler doesn't produce inefficient code. Hardware is cheaper than programmers hours... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message