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[Andreas] has created this tutorial on real-time (RT) tasks in Linux. At first blush that sounds like a rather dry topic, but [Andreas] makes things interesting by giving us some real-world demos ...
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.
A number of modifications were made to the general-purpose Linux kernel to make Linux a viable choice for real time, such as the scheduler, interrupt handling, locking mechanism and so on.
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 ...
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 ...
Future releases of Linux may provide more responsive desktop performance thanks to a new "completely fair scheduler" being incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel.