DragonFly users List (threaded) for 2006-08
[
Date Prev][
Date Next]
[
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index]
Re: How much of microkernel?
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > Well, DragonFly is definitely not a microkernel. We forked off of
> > FreeBSD, after all, and that is a fairly monolithic kernel. I like
> > the microkernel concept but putting core elements of an operating
> > system into their own protection boxes result in fairly significant
> > performance issues.
> >
Matt,
is this still true? Did you read about more recent microkernels, like the L4
family (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/)?
Thomas
[
Date Prev][
Date Next]
[
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index]