Re: freebsd exokernel

2010-08-02 Thread Fabio Kaminski
Ali, thanks for pointing Corey, in fact im already studying its source ... this core aware architecture , and share nothing mechanisms are just brilliant, each core running its own tcp stack, while it has one core exclusive for the device pooling its great... is jails working that way? Ow, err

Re: freebsd exokernel

2010-07-31 Thread Ali Mashtizadeh
Hi Fabio, Exokernels are great operating systems for prototyping or learning. You obviously incur a lot more performance hits when you implement such an architecture. I haven't looked into the details of DragonflyBSD too much but they have enough infrastructure to run a userlevel kernel that is so

Re: freebsd exokernel

2010-07-31 Thread Fabio Kaminski
yes , i have snifed the mach.. but i dont like the message passing idea.. its from the microkernel species and theres even a nouveau reincarnation called barrelfish http://www.barrelfish.org .. wich is a sort of microkernel but running one kernel core nucleus for each core and message passing each

Re: freebsd exokernel

2010-07-31 Thread CDP
On 07/31/10 15:06, Julian H. Stacey wrote: would it be a feasible project to borrow things from freebsd, and start a project like this? anyone like this idea ?? The code is free to use :-) anyway, just some thoughts for now.. See also eg Mach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach

Re: freebsd exokernel

2010-07-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> would it be a feasible project to borrow things from freebsd, and start a > project like this? anyone like this idea ?? The code is free to use :-) > anyway, just some thoughts for now.. See also eg Mach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28ke

freebsd exokernel

2010-07-30 Thread Fabio Kaminski
Hi folks, i know its a kind of off topic, but i think this is the perfect list for this.. anyone here think a little bit like me, and like the exokernel idea? the primary idea is to leverage only things like schedulling, and drivers to kernel ring .. and downgrade things like VFS and MM to userl