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Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support


Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via (e)BPF programs.

Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via (e)BPF programs. CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT is now enabled for Fedora's Linux 6.12+ kernel builds moving forward. The extensible scheduler class for the Fedora kernel builds was enabled via this change by Jose Fernandez that was merged yesterday.

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