Con Kolivas Revives Linux 7.2-ck1 and MuQSS, Citing 10 Years Away
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Updated · Phoronix · Aug 17
Con Kolivas Revives Linux 7.2-ck1 and MuQSS, Citing 10 Years Away
1 articles · Updated · Phoronix · Aug 17
Summary
Linux 7.2-ck1 and an updated MuQSS scheduler were released by Con Kolivas, reviving his long-dormant -ck patchset for Linux 7.2 desktop and mobile responsiveness.
10 years after abandoning the project, Kolivas said LLMs made merging and maintaining the out-of-tree patches "infinitely easier," helping bring the codebase back in sync with 7.2.
New work includes I/O-aware CPU scheduling, accounting kernel-thread work back to the calling task, P/E-core-aware load balancing for Intel hybrid CPUs, and skiplist micro-optimizations plus bug fixes.
Kolivas still is not seeking to upstream the scheduler work into the mainline kernel, saying his long-running frustration with the Linux kernel development process remains.