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

[Chris Townley]

On 04/05/2023 21:57, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2023-05-02 13:24:00 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
> 
>> 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 ?
> 
> If you're going to blue-sky this, move RMS and the XQP into a user-mode 
> process, preferably with zero-copy buffering.
> 
> Whether a solitary process or replicated processes would depend on 
> complexity, aggregate system load, and available cores.
> 
> Yeah, I know, I'm making a mach-ery of the existing two-by-two version 
> of the four-mode design.
> 
> But pragmatically, VSI has a few billion projects in the queue ahead of 
> re-architecting the RMS and XQP giblets.
> 
> 

I am sure Hein is available

-- 
Chris