Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel

Tomorrow the Linux 6.6 kernel is expected to be released as stable unless Linus Torvalds has last minute reservations and decides to extend the cycle by an extra week. While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Great-Features

[uid313]

So how good is the new scheduler?

[Snaipersky]

So how good is the new scheduler?

Bottom of the article, benchmarks are coming. I'm curious too. I've enjoyed the advantages of cachy/cacULE/BORE scheduler (though they really have to stop remaining it every time it gets a new feature or knob), so it will be interesting to to see how well CFS's new mainline replacement fares.

[archkde]

So how good is the new scheduler?

Chances are you won't notice it, because the bad scheduler of Linux is the I/O one, and that hasn't changed.

[binarybanana]

So how good is the new scheduler?

It's about on par with BFS/MuQSS from -ck (crazy good), not surprising since they're all based on the same algorithm.

[cynic]

So how good is the new scheduler?

I've been using 6.6 for a couple of days and can't say I see visible differences on my old Thinkpad T480s (mostly used for programming and web browsing, so nothing where you notice much latency)

However I noticed that the fan start less often.

[direc85]

I hope the new scheduler fixes this annoying parallel compilation corner case I'm hitting. Now that I said that, I probably jinxed it and it only gets worse!

I have had no other issues, but I'm also interested to see if it makes my system more responsive when I compile this one (other) project with -j$(nproc).