Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:40:30 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/23] sched: Provide sched_set_fifo() |
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:33:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:50:06 -0700 > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote: > > > Indeed, an extreme form of insanity would be required to try to make core > > RCU be a module. Not that such a form of insanity is a bad thing in and > > of itself, but it might best be directed towards less futile ventures. ;-) > > That's like making the core of mutexes a module. How would that ever work > (without becoming a microkernel).
Someone somewhere has probably done it. Perhaps you really could make mutexes be a module within the Linux kernel using kpatch or similar. Sort of, anyway.
Not saying it is not insane, mind you! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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