[Info-vax] What would be involved in moving RMS into kernel mode ?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu May 4 04:07:00 EDT 2023


On 2023-05-02 15:24, Simon Clubley wrote:
> If the emulated executive mode is a major reason for the kernel overheads
> we are seeing on x86-64 VMS, what would be involved in moving RMS from
> executive mode directly into kernel mode ?

I have a hard time seeing why it would cost very much to deal with the 
different modes. I can definitely believe that code hasn't been 
optimized in general, though.

   Johnny




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