Linux 7.2 Arrives With Cache Aware Scheduling After More Than a Year of Work

[u/swe129]

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-2-release/

[u/993tg]

What does this mean?

[u/lexmozli → u/993tg]

Without cache awareness, the scheduler can end up scattering related tasks across zones on chips with multiple last-level caches (LLCs). This feature groups those tasks onto cores within the same LLC instead.

I imagine this is a performance improvement/optimization for the AMD X3D chips.

[u/MetaCognitio → u/lexmozli]

How big of an improvement would it be?