Re:Moving Google toward the mainline
by eru on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:25PM
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Why not? They could have kernel accommodation for one feature, and user-land leakage for another.
Also, for some features you need both kernel and userland cooperation. Just think of eg fuse or io_uring or mmap that are in the public kernel. You can surely imagine that Google might brew up similar features.
(I used to work at Google. But I didn't have any special insider knowledge about their kernel stuff. Which is good, so I can't violate any lingering NDAs here with my speculation..)
Also, for some features you need both kernel and userland cooperation. Just think of eg fuse or io_uring or mmap that are in the public kernel. You can surely imagine that Google might brew up similar features.
(I used to work at Google. But I didn't have any special insider knowledge about their kernel stuff. Which is good, so I can't violate any lingering NDAs here with my speculation..)