Re: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler

[Peter Williams]

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > 2. have a user space daemon poll running tasks periodically and renice 
> > them if they are running specified binaries
> >
> > Both of these solutions have their advantages and disadvantages, are 
> > (obviously) complicated than I've made them sound and would require a 
> > great deal of care to be taken during their implementation.  However, 
> > I think that they are both doable.  My personal preference would be 
> > for the in kernel solution on the grounds of efficiency.
>
>
> Better would be to have the kernel tell the daemon whenever a process in 
> exec-ed, and you have simplicity in the kernel, and policy in user space.

Yes.  That would be a good solution.  Does a mechanism that allows the 
kernel to notify specific programs about specific events like this exist?

Peter
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