Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: userspace irq balancer | Date | Wed, 21 May 2003 18:44:46 -0700 |
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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.
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