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SubjectRe: userspace irq balancer
> 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.

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