NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM

Posted by bob on Feb 5, 2025 10:37 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...

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