Processor scheduling is the allocation of a computer's processor power to specific tasks. The practice uses the term "scheduling" because it assigns a specific percentage of time the processor is ...

For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...

AMD is working on a new extension for its Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) framework designed to improve operating system scheduling accuracy on modern processors. The technology, ...

Linux Kernel 7.3 is officially released. Discover the 5 big features, including dmemcg VRAM management, Btrfs speedups, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. For context, CPPC, short for Collaborative Processor Performance Control, already helps operating systems figure out which CPU cores are fastest for a ...

Vineeth Pillai started off by noting that, while mitigations have been developed for the known Spectre vulnerabilities, they do not provide complete protection on systems where simultaneous ...

Back in the 2.6.0-test days, there was a lot of concern that the 2.6 CPU scheduler wasn't up to the task. In particular, performance on higher-end systems - those with hyperthreaded processors, NUMA ...