tech-kern: Microkernels (was: partition bookkeeping)

Subject: Microkernels (was: partition bookkeeping)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Gary Duzan <gary@wheel.tiac.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/27/1999 07:57:50

In Message <199909270331.XAA16949@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> ,
   der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

=>Heh.
=>
=>	Why don't microkernels work?  Too expensive - all those context
=>	switches.
=>
=>	Why are context switches expensive?  Because they happen
=>	rarely, so nobody bothers to optimize them.

   For a counterexample, check out L4. < http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/ >

					Gary D. Duzan