
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.