“Ingo Molnar posted a merge request for the latest git scheduler
tree summarizing, ‘it contains various enhancements to the
scheduler–find the full shortlog is below. 96 commits from 19
authors–scheduler developers have been busy again. :-/’ He added,
‘the scheduling behavior of the kernel to normal users should not
change over v2.6.24, but there are a good number of new features
and enhancements under the hood.’ Ingo went on to list a number of
these new features, including:“‘Various instrumentation and debugging enhancements from Arjan
van de Ven; Peter Zijlstra’s RT time limit and RT throttling code
for the RT scheduling class…'”