For those getting excited, It doesn’t “boost” gaming performance. It prioritizes the game over the background process (in this case, a kernel being compiled.)
Schedulers aren’t magic. As pointed out in the comments of the linked article, there are other ways of doing this. The more interesting tech here is being able to choose between schedulers under specific workloads, which is very nice IMO.
If this is in user space, does this mean we can switch schedulers on the fly? Put it in game mode when gaming, power saving mode when on battery, etc?
Does a scheduler impact power draw? Maybe you’re confusing this for a CPU governor perhaps?
And yes, the underlying tech here is user-configurable schedulers. Very neat.
Wow, that’s a huge difference. I wonder if it’s just a niche case that fixes Terraria specifically, it would be nice to see more benchmarks on other games.
I didn’t watch it all. (OK, didn’t realize it was only a minute. I basically saw everything).
But I wonder if it’s simpler than that, and it’s just doing a better job prioritizing the game. Presumably there’s a reason they’re doing it while running a heavy background process.
This obviously still has value if it’s the case, and is a big part of the point of a scheduler, but the headline implied (to me) that it’s a general performance improvement, and the video doesn’t demonstrate that.
