Re: MIPS 64?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> BTW, I have been under the impression that demand for larger system RAM
> mainly comes from large router/switches to store routing table.  Does
> anybody know on such systems whether the routing code runs in kernel or
> user space and whether it requires all the memory space accessible at
> the same time or can live with dynamically managed memory space?

Kernel routing is more for the lower end systems; the highend systems use
hardware assisted routing / switching where software only handles the
boundary cases; such software might either live in user or in kernel space.

  Ralf