Since I'm primarily interested in embedded Linux and since mostembedded Linux systems are uniprocessor systems, my testing focusedexclusively on uniprocessors systems. I tested both patches on a2.4.17 ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a ...

Says Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds says that claims by C++ game developer Malte Skarupke that his spinlocks experiments had discovered the Linux kernel had a scheduler issue were garbage. Torvalds ...

Future releases of Linux may provide more responsive desktop performance thanks to a new "completely fair scheduler" being incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel.