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Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool


Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched.

Rust makes use of the Linux kernel BPF integration for watching scheduler tracepoints and select performance counters. Chris Mason elaborated in his announcement today introducing rsched:"I've been wanting to write up a tool to give a broad overview of process scheduler metrics, and I used our recent regression hunt as an excuse to work something up. More details on rsched in general via the mailing list announcement.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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