Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 23:50:11 -0700
>
> There are definitely gains to having static serving and similar things
> in kernel space... but this sort of thing should really be a
> separately-distributed kernel module. khttpd could definitely be useful
> on 2.0, 2.2, and 2.3 kernels. And the development pace and stability
> of khttpd and the kernel might not necessarily intersect often.
>
> Tangent to this, it would be cool to move some drivers to a "driver pack",
> basically a separate release tarball that closely tracks kernel releases.
>
> It seems to me that you get better results sometimes by mixing and
> matching specific driver versions direct from its maintainer, as opposed
> to mixing and matching kernel releases themselves to get a good, stable
> combination. Plus, stable, well-tested versions of some drivers sometimes
> appear faster than the stable versions of the kernel itself.
>
This is true. Something I'd like to get fixed in 2.3 is the pains that
one have to go through to compile a kernel module out-of-kernel. Some
of it can be dealt with autoconf macros, but that's not ideal.
-hpa
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