Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2003 18:28:56 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: userspace irq balancer |
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> 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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