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Policy belongs to kernel space

Posted Nov 18, 2010 18:27 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Policy belongs to kernel space by hmh
Parent article: TTY-based group scheduling

The "policy is userspace" mentality is exactly one of the things that make Unixy systems flexible (and got Linux running from smartphones to Google). If it truly is setting policy, a roundtrip through the kernel won't be expensive enough to make any difference anyway.

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