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falcor84 8 hours ago

I for one liked the old and simple WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE attitude.

https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE

gcr 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Performance regressions are different from ABI incompatibilities. If the kernel refused to do any work that slowed down any userspace program, the pace would go a lot slower.

shadowgovt 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Or be a lot uglier. See: Microsoft replacing its own API surfaces with binary-compatible representations to workaround companies like Adobe adding perf improvements like bypassing the kernel-provided kernel object constructors because it saved them a few cycles to just hard-code the objects they wanted and memcpy them into existence.

cogman10 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Microsoft's whole "Let's just ship all the dlls" attitude is a big part of the reason a windows install is like 300GB now.

Eventually you'd expect that something has to give.

reisse 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure it is true anymore. I've encountered few userspace breaks in io_uring, at least.