Shrinking the scheduler
Shrinking the scheduler
[Kernel] Posted Jun 14, 2017 19:33 UTC (Wed) by corbet
The ups and downs of patching the kernel to wedge Linux into tiny systems has been debated numerous times over the years, most recently in the context of Nicolas Pitre's alternative TTY layer patches posted in April. Pitre is driving the debate again, this time by trying to shrink the kernel's CPU scheduler. In the process, he has exposed a couple of areas of fundamental disagreement on the value of this kind of work.