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A Last Minute Fix For EEVDF Scheduling Lag With Linux 6.13


Ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable kernel expected to be released later today, there is a last minute fix for the EEVDF CPU scheduler.

Ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable kernel expected to be released later today, there is a last minute fix for the EEVDF CPU scheduler. Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra discovered earlier this month this EEVDF entity placement bug causing scheduling lag. The 145 line rework to helping to avoid this scheduling lag in Linux 6.13 can be found via the sched pull request that should be merged to the mainline kernel in the coming hours.

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