Topic: cache locality
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Facebook's Linux Scheduler Shift Could Redefine Server Performance
Meta is deploying a Linux CPU scheduler, originally designed for the Steam Deck's low-latency gaming, to address performance inefficiencies in its large-scale server infrastructure, which struggles with traditional scheduling on modern multi-core hardware. The scheduler, SCX-LAVD, uses behavioral...
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Facebook's Linux Scheduler Shift Could Reshape Server Performance
Meta is deploying a Linux CPU scheduler, **SCX-LAVD**, originally designed for the Steam Deck to reduce gaming latency, to address performance bottlenecks in its production servers. The scheduler uses the **sched_ext framework** to integrate as a pluggable kernel component, dynamically identifyin...
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