Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jul 2007 21:57 UTC, submitted by maverick
The Linux kernel process scheduler, as you know it, has been completely ripped out and replaced with a completely new one called Completely Fair Scheduler. How fair it will be, remains to be seen. Here's what its original creator Ingo Molnar says: "80% Of CFS's design can be summed up in a single sentence: CFS basically models an 'ideal, precise multi-tasking CPU' on real hardware." Learn more about the new scheduler from the CFS design document.
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IIRC, the scheduler used to calculate times (such as thread quanta and accumulated time) in units of jiffies, while now time is calculated in physical units (ns).