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ARM64 Expected To Support Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" With Linux 6.16


Introduced last year for Linux 6.13 was lazy preemption 'PREEMPT_LAZY' for a preemption model that is similar to full preemption but less eager to preempt normal scheduler tasks to provide some of the performance benefits found with voluntary preemption

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