Re: Systemfs plan
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:07:49 +1100
Karl Heyes writes:
>
>
> I know some of you will be sick of the devfs threads, but seeing that
> I had already started on a similar project (systemfs) end of last year, I
> thought I'd carry on.
>
> Anyone who looked at the first one, would see that it suffered from context
> switches due to the fact that a large percentage of the system was maintained
> in user space by a daemon.
>
> While the daemon is essentially a necessary part (The kernel knows nothing
> about users or local system configuration), I planning on reducing its
> workload. The current setup uses a communication link to pipe all the
> information (kernel<-->daemon). This of course suffers from context switches.
Just so I can understand: what is the benefit of a systemfs if you
already have a devfs?
Regards,
Richard....