Exokernels Anyone? 12
shankark asks: "I was doing a paper review on the exokernel, and found some pretty good design ideas in it comparing the work with the monolitic kernel and microkernel architectures. There was also a Slashdot story way back in 1998, but the thread sort of died out. I wanted to know if there is any work being done in trying to incorporate the exokernel design ideas into the mainstream linux kernel. What would be the pros and cons of doing such a thing?"
Re:A microkernel. Wonderful --- not. (Score:3, Interesting)
And many of the Exokernel ideas are just a slight refinement on the Partitioning idea used by large server systems. So by that token, it makes sense.
I think the bigger problem, however, is the idea in the academic community that they can build a perfect system for every application if they just abstract things enough. This drove Microkernels and this is driving Exokernels.