… The pull request notes some functionality is now going to land in a later kernel cycle: "Cgroup sub-scheduler groundwork. Multiple BPF schedulers can be attached to cgroups and the dispatch path is made hierarchical. …
… On Friday, which coincidentally was the 22nd birthday of Phoronix , a new version of these scheduling patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that can make a noticeable impact on cgroup scheduling performance during Linux gaming. …
… The dmemcg-booster is a systemd service used for enabling and controlling DMEM cgroup limits for boosting foreground games. …
… There was also a second set of MM updates merged for Linux 7.1 bringing: - A set of 33 patches to address the dying memcg cgroup problem where no-longer-used memory control group would persist for a period of time pointlessly consuming memory. - The Kexec Handover KHO code will now track the prior … …
… Future plans are to introduce fine-grained control of using cache aware scheduling on specific tasks after the load-balance-based cache-aware scheduling is merged: - Look into task tagging e.g. with schedqos framework, cgroup for non process based tasks grouping to LLC. - Evaluate fast cache-aware … …
… Memcg reclaim is unaffected since try to free mem cgroup pages always uses order 0, which passes the filter unconditionally. …
… In turn this led to Asterinas implementing namespaces support, cgroups, various VirtIO features, and more. This operating system update also brings a new NVMe driver, a re-implemented EXT2 file-system driver, and other updates. …
… Linux will now be able to support multiple batteries per HID device in better handling modern hardware. - Sched EXT is expected to prioritize SMT siblings for better performance and separately tighter control when tasks land on a CPU . - Sensor monitoring for more ASUS desktop motherboards . - Redu… …