Re: Running user processes in kernel mode; Java and .NET supportin kernel

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 22:31:40 EST


Why would I care ? I need the MMU for paging and to avoid fragmentation
of the system. If I have the MMU on then memory protection checks are
free.

Except in 4G/4G mode syscalls are extremely cheap too nowdays.

Alan

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