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Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 July 2026

Going back to early May there were patches for improving the Linux scheduler to help with gaming performance on old "potato" hardware by providing better cgroup scheduling. Those patches, referred to as the "flatten the pick" patch series, are now slated for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel...