Subject: None
To: None <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/26/1997 11:22:50
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
I think the person starting the thread acuatlly *did* want to move
compression and data-transfer to userspace. Which you're also
against, yes?
Yes. e.g. compression: the performance gain of in-kernel
(de)compression, compared to in-modem compression, comes from the
reduced interupt and context switch rate. I think its wise to keep the
core of it there. Somebody already cited the reasons.
>The only stuff you need in-kernel (or lkm'd, eventually) are the
>compression protocols and the data transfer protocols used (but only
>data compression part, not the negotiation part/state machine).
Actually, according to Paul Mackerras, a small part of the CCP state
*is* in the kernel, and gets handled there, because receiving such
a packet should affects how the next output packet is handled.
Hm... this might well be, I don't know the details of that stuff.
Regards,
Ignatios Souvatzis