Evolving the LAVD scheduler from gaming to servers

What happened

The extensible scheduler class , which enables the creation of custom CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) schedulers with BPF, has led to a burst of innovation in this area; the LAVD scheduler has, perhaps, been one of the most noteworthy schedulers to emerge. Though it was originally designed for gaming applications , the LAVD scheduler has since grown to serve other types of workloads as well. At the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes , Changwoo Min and Gavin Guo presented an overview of this scheduler and how it has evolved over time.