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

[Mike Fedyk]

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.
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