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- This new mechanism might also be useful in a VM world, where the hypervisor allocates cores to guest OSes (which adjust their requests based on demand), the guest OSes allocate course to applications (based on their requests), and applications schedule cores to fibers.
- The new OS APIs should be designed with polling in mind. For example, if an OS needs to reclaim a core from an application, it leaves a note in memory, which the application's nanoscheduler sees and then picks a thread to relinquish.
- With the increasing number of cores, and the importance of application-level thread scheduling, it makes more sense for OSes to think of cores as a resource to be allocated, not scheduled.