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From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1 0/9] UMCG early preview/RFC patchset
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Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 15:17:25 -0600
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Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com> writes:

> As indicated earlier in the FUTEX_SWAP patchset:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200722234538.166697-1-posk@posk.io/
>
> "Google Fibers" is a userspace scheduling framework
> used widely and successfully at Google to improve in-process workload
> isolation and response latencies. We are working on open-sourcing
> this framework, and UMCG (User-Managed Concurrency Groups) kernel
> patches are intended as the foundation of this.

So I have to ask...is there *any* documentation out there on what this
is and how people are supposed to use it?  Shockingly, typing "Google
fibers" into Google leads to a less than fully joyful outcome...  This
won't be easy for anybody to review if they have to start by
reverse-engineering what it's supposed to do.

Thanks,

jon