Re: Macintosh kernel out

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 27 May 1996 20:22:16 +0100 (BST)


> Agreed, I'm to the point with the Sparc port where I'm counting cache
> lines and pipeline stalls. When a microkernel based version of Linux
> can get close to 7mb/s localhost TCP bandwidth on a 40mhz processor
> like I currently am, then I would start considering a microkernel as
> a viable thing to even use.

Overall throughput doesnt tend to be the biggest microkernel bugbear,
especially for a single server. Stuff like syscall overhead and the ethernet
latency do start to climb dramatically