But hey, Pennsylvania doesnât want to be perfect. It just wants to consume pretzels at an alarming frequency while ignoring all the bad stuff Ben Roethlisberger probably did and the plot holes in most of the Rocky movies.
A monolithic driver contains the functionality for both the logic to control the hardware and the interface to the operating system and applications in a single DLL. A monolithic driver accesses its hardware device without using an intermediate PDD layer, and it exposes the functionality of the device to the operating system. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads.
Performance of microkernel vs monolithic kernel. up vote 11 down vote favorite. A microkernel implements all drivers as user-space programs, and implements core features like IPC in the kernel itself. A monolithic kernel, however, implements the drivers as a part of the kernel (e.g. runs in kernel mode). I have read some claims that microkernels are slower than monolithic kernels, since they need to handle message passing between the drivers in user space. Is this true?