Linux 6.12: Scheduler now expandable and EEVDF conversion complete After much debate, the “extensible scheduler” finally made it into the official kernel. Deadline server for real-time ...

The current Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) is also likely going to be replaced in the Linux kernel with the EEVDF scheduler as the default.

The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities for workstation, server and cloud deployments.

Since I'm primarily interested in embedded Linux and since mostembedded Linux systems are uniprocessor systems, my testing focusedexclusively on uniprocessors systems. I tested both patches on a2.4.17 ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a ...

Future releases of Linux may provide more responsive desktop performance thanks to a new "completely fair scheduler" being incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel.