Fixing SCHED_IDLE
Fixing SCHED_IDLE
[Kernel] Posted Nov 26, 2019 15:52 UTC (Tue) by vireshk
The Linux kernel scheduler is a complicated beast and a lot of effort goes into improving it during every kernel release cycle. The 5.4 kernel release includes a few improvements to the existing SCHED_IDLE scheduling policy that can help users improve the scheduling latency of their high-priority (interactive) tasks if they use the SCHED_IDLE policy for the lowest-priority (background) tasks. Read on for a description of this work contributed by Viresh Kumar.