> Developers should be careful, though; this could prove to be a slippery slope leading toward something that starts to look like a microkernel architecture. T

> Developers should be careful, though; this could prove to be a slippery slope leading toward something that starts to look like a microkernel architecture. That's an interesting warning. Pushing more tasks out of the kernel would seem like a good idea to me. I thought Torvalds' argument against a microkernel design was more about performance than complexity. Is that incorrect?