From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mo@Lbl-Unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: avoiding kernel memory tomfoolery
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4988
Posted: Thu Dec 30 14:12:40 1982
Received: Sat Jan  1 01:54:28 1983

From: mo at Lbl-Unix (Mike O'Dell [system])
Date: 29 Dec 1982 14:54:35-PST
Many years ago, George Goble solved the kmem problem with a thing called
the table driver - minor devs specify which table (proc, inode, etc.)
it reads up.  It is MUCH faster than the fuibytes done on 11's,
and MUCH cleaner.  I would strongly recommend it be adopted to generally
solve the problem.
	-Mike