Notes from the LPC scheduler microconference
Notes from the LPC scheduler microconference
[Kernel] Posted Sep 18, 2017 23:11 UTC (Mon) by corbet
The scheduler workloads microconference at the 2017 Linux Plumbers Conference covered several aspects of the kernel's CPU scheduler. While workloads were on the agenda, so were a rework of the realtime scheduler's push/pull mechanism, a distinctly different approach to multi-core scheduling, and the use of tracing for workload simulation and analysis. As the following summary shows, CPU scheduling has not yet reached a point where all of the important questions have been answered.