Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware

Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a "potato" -- an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics. Benchmark results are promising from this work for gaming on old hardware while other work… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Flatten-The-Pick