How to change the Linux I/O scheduler to fit your needs Your email has been sent In order to eek out as much performance from Linux servers as possible, learn how to change your I/O scheduler to meet ...

The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities that will impact workstation, server and cloud deployments. Among the improvements that are part of Linux 6.6 ...

Modern computing systems rely heavily on operating-system schedulers to allocate CPU time fairly and efficiently. Yet many of these schedulers operate blindly with respect to the meaning of workloads: ...

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 multicore ...

Sometimes you read an article headline and you find yourself re-reading it a few times before diving into the article. This was definitely the case for a recent blog post by [The HFT Guy], where the ...

Although most Linux users are familiar with the role of process schedulers, such as the new O(1) scheduler, many users are not so familiar with the role of I/O schedulers. I/O schedulers are similar ...

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 said the whole post ...

Modifying any part of the Linux kernel source code is usually a challenging task most software developers would prefer to avoid, composed as it is thousands of code lines divided by hundred of files.

System development uses a microkernel architecture and Linux run-time environment to achieve high-speed performance. For many applications, employing common programming techniques—such as memory ...