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Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware


Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a 'potato' -- an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics

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