… And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel. The Cache Aware Scheduling patches as of a few days ago were queued into Peter Zijlstra's sched/cache Git branch . …
… Those interested can find the new Cache Aware Scheduling v4 patches on the kernel mailing list . Hopefully this Cache Aware Scheduling functionality will manage to make it into the mainline Linux kernel this year. …
… At this point UFQ is considered "somewhat experimental" with just basic testing performed and awaiting feedback from other upstream developers around this BPF-based I/O scheduling initiative. Those interested in these RFC patches for UFQ can find them for review on the Linux kernel mailing list . …
… The Linux Kernel Working On A Rust-Based Untrusted Data API OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2 Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work Linux 7.1-rc4 Released With Many Fixes, New Documentation For Security/AI Topics Linux Kernel A…
… Each patch stands on its own." A number of these sched ext patches are marked for back-porting to current Linux kernel stable releases with some of the patches even being marked for back-porting all the way back to Linux 6.12 LTS. …
… NVIDIA Linux engineer Andrea Righi has been working to improve the Linux kernel's asymmetric CPU capacity scheduling with better SMT awareness. …
… Our benchmarks show very nice performance with Intel FRED on Panther Lake and opened the door for the Linux kernel enabling it by default. There are also patches carried by CachyOS with its Linux 7.0 of MGLRU enhancements, scheduling improvements, and more. …
… The performance is reportedly unchanged from the v4 patches, which showed much potential from this patch series when tested on an EPYC Zen 3 server: Those interested can find these latest accelerated page migration patches on the Linux kernel mailing list . …
… 1 Comment The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches. …
… Besides the Linux patches to allow IPv6-only builds and to allow deprecating "legacy" IPv4 that does carry some elements of actual intent for better separating IPv4 and IPv6 in the kernel, there are also other April 1 patches this year on the Linux kernel mailing list. …