Linux microkernel?
Linux microkernel?
Posted Aug 30, 2022 5:50 UTC (Tue) by zev (subscriber, #88455)In reply to: Linux microkernel? by dvdeug
Parent article: Crash recovery for user-space block drivers
there's enough power to let people do things the easy, flexible way or the maximally efficient way if they need that.Agreed -- I think the general trend is clearly toward increasing flexibility and having the option (for a growing set of things) of either an in-kernel implementation or a userspace one. Though for whatever reason, it seems like whenever a new userspace option pops up the "will Linux become a microkernel?" comments inevitably appear, whereas I can't recall ever seeing the inverse when Linux grows things like (to pick some recent examples) in-kernel TLS support or KSMBD.