Writing a multithreaded daemon process

[Zhihui Zhang]

On 7 Feb 2000, Johan Danielsson wrote:

> Zhihui Zhang <zzhang at cs.binghamton.edu> writes:
> 
> > If the daemon can somehow reside entirely inside the kernel, like
> > NFS daemon, we can save those crossings.
> 
> Yes, but the whole point of having the daemon in userspace is that
> it's *so* much easier to maintain. If you want to work on performance,
> I suggest that you take a look at other parts of the system, like RX.

The RX part seems to deal with RPC. I do not see the reason why it can
improve performance.  Maybe it is some Asynchronous RPC?

-Zhihui