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 ...

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.

Back in early November 2001, I started following a discussionbetween two factions of the Linux kernel community. The gist of thediscussion was over what was the best solution to the Linux ...