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Intel Posts Big Linux Patch Set For "Classes of Tasks" On Hybrid CPUs, Thread Director

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 10 September 2022 at 06:40 AM EDT. 34 Comments
Sent out as a "request for comments" on Friday night was a new patch series out of Intel introducing the notion of "classes of tasks" for the Linux kernel so that the scheduler can make better decisions on hybrid processors like with Intel's Alder Lake processors and upcoming Raptor Lake. This also provides a more complete implementation of Intel Thread Director for Linux and may also be used as the basis for instruction set differences between the performance and efficient cores.

The set of 23 patches sent out last night are under the umbrella of introducing the concept of classes of tasks for load balancing. This builds off the existing Intel Linux work on the

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