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Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution
Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context
The prep work likely to be merged for Linux 6.13 is this patch series of changes needed before this Proxy Execution priority inheritance can be introduced. With those prep patches now merged into the TIP code ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window, these patches in turn should be upstreamed at that point barring any last minute problems or criticism raised by Linus Torvalds... After years of being discussed, hopefully it won't be too much longer before seeing the actual Proxy Execution support mainlined in the Linux kernel. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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