Evaluating vendor changes to the scheduler

mfuzzey — Wed, 20 May 2020 08:04:18 +0000

>But handset vendors still end up applying their own patches to the scheduler for the kernels they ship

This should be coming to an end with Google moving to requiring a single (Google) kernel + vendor modules.

Of course Google could still apply out of tree patches to their kernel but at least that will mean just a single place to look at to figure out how the mainline scheduler could be improved for the Android use case.

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Evaluating vendor changes to the scheduler