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

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.

[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 ...

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 ...

In order to eek out as much performance from Linux servers as possible, learn how to change your I/O scheduler to meet your needs.

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