Core work still going on 33 years later
Core work still going on 33 years later
Posted Oct 22, 2024 0:27 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Core work still going on 33 years later by roc
Parent article: The long road to lazy preemption
On the third hand, Linux _is_ evolving. We now have resource partitioning via cgroups, we're evolving a new process management API that lacks braindeadness of the classic POSIX process management API. And we have io_uring for the async stuff.
I can see a world 15 years from now, where all the classic synchronous Linux system calls are reimplemented as user-space compat shims on top of a minimalistic native io_uring kernel.