Linus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for ...

According to him, "I implemented power-efficient connectivity algorithms ... kernel is increasingly gaining real-time capabilities (such as fully merged PREEMPT_RT patches) and advanced scheduling ...

The standard Linux kernel provides two real-time scheduling policies, SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR. The main real-time policy is SCHED_FIFO. It implements a first-in, first-out scheduling algorithm. When a ...

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.

was merged for the 2.6.23 kernel. One CFS feature which did not get in, though, was the group scheduling facility. Group scheduling makes the CFS fairness algorithm operate in a hierarchical ...

The algorithm used to select one task at a time from the ... SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE scheduling policies. kernel/sched_rt.c: provides the SCHED_RR and SCHED_FIFO policies used by real-time (RT) ...

Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI system breaks a 56-year-old mathematical record by discovering a more efficient matrix multiplication algorithm that had eluded human mathematicians since Strassen's ...

Linux kernel 6.13 is here, but don't get too excited. It's not a biggie and, given the timing, probably won't appear in many familiar distros.… Head penguin herder Linus Torvalds announced Linux ...

On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of failures in their scheduling, initially triggered by severe winter ...