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On Wed, 21 May 2003 18:28:56 PDT, "Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
> > Yeah, I suppose this userland policy change means we should pull
> > the scheduler policy decisions out of the kernel and write user level
> > HT, NUMA, SMP and UP schedulers. Also, the IO schedulers should
> > probably be pulled out - I'm sure AS and CFQ and linus_scheduler
> > could be user land policies, as well as the elevator. Memory
> > placement and swapping policies, too.
> >
> > Oh, wait, some people actually do this - they call it, what,
> > Workload Management or some such thing. But I don't know any
> > style of workload management that leaves *no* default, semi-sane
> > policy in the kernel.
>
> I think the word you're groping for here is "microkernel".
>
> M.

Oh, yeah. Page replacement policy in user level. That one was
a real winner.

gerrit
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