From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262965AbUBZTuF (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:50:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261579AbUBZTuE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:50:04 -0500 Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.52]:32136 "EHLO mtaw4.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262943AbUBZTrE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: <403E4D1B.9060503@matchmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:46:35 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shailabh Nagar CC: Peter Williams , Timothy Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler References: <403D3E47.4080501@techsource.com> <403D576A.6030900@aurema.com> <403D5D32.4010007@matchmail.com> <403D71AB.9060609@aurema.com> <403D73B4.4060600@matchmail.com> <403E47C4.4080104@watson.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <403E47C4.4080104@watson.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Shailabh Nagar wrote: >>> Mike Fedyk wrote: >>>> 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. > > > > As it turns out, one can still use a fairly simple in-kernel module > which provides a *mechanism* for effectively changing a process' > entitlement while retaining the policy component in userland. How much code could be removed if CKRM triggered a userspace process to perform the operations required?