Giovanni Gherdovich
I joined SUSE in 2016 and have since been working on Linux kernel performance, task scheduling and power management.
@GGhh
Mastodon –Session
10-13
12:00
50min
Kernel CPU schedulers specialized to an application
Giovanni Gherdovich
We'll explore ways to design single-purpose task schedulers, specialized for exactly one application and one hardware platform, optimizing for performance. This approach is made affordable by a recent patch to the Linux kernel introducing Sched-Ext, an additional scheduler class that loads user-defined task schedulers in the form of BPF programs ("Ext" here is for "extensible").
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