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NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM


Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel

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