(Scheduler Case Study – Linux) Let us look at the Linux scheduler, which is at the heart of one of the most widely used server OS (100% of the 2019 top 500 supercomputers in the world use Linux!) ...

Sometimes you read an article headline and you find yourself re-reading it a few times before diving into the article. This was definitely the case for a recent blog post by [The HFT Guy], where the ...

The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities that will impact workstation, server and cloud deployments. Among the improvements that are part of Linux 6.6 ...

[Andreas] has created this tutorial on real-time (RT) tasks in Linux. At first blush that sounds like a rather dry topic, but [Andreas] makes things interesting by giving us some real-world demos ...

Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore ...

This project provides a basic tutorial for building a minimal Linux scheduler using sched_ext and eBPF directly in C. The scheduler operates with a First-In-First-Out(FIFO) approach, essentially ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More The next release of the Linux kernel will apparently gain ...