From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 15 22:16:59 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B144C37B74F; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09009; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:46:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200006160506.XAA28743@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:46:41 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy Cc: Alfred Perlstein , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Daniel C. Sobral" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Jun-00 Nate Williams wrote: > > So we should just not bother squeezing more performance out of the system > > on > > architectural grounds? > Correct. If we want performance, how about removing the difference > between kernel and userland. Why have the overhead of the kernel > vs. userland change, since it causes us to take a big performance hit. > > As long as we're at it, we may as well embed all of the video drivers in > the kernel, like NT did. X should become an embedded part of the > system, since that will also speed up performance again. > There are *LOTS* of performance improvments that can be done. Since > FreeBSD is used on the internet, let's embed telnet and ftp in the > kernel as well. We could certainly blow away all benchmarks that people > see. OK, thanks for your amusing interlude now you can try and send a mail with some content. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message