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It was only a matter of time before somebody tried to bring BPF to the
kernel’s CPU scheduler. At the end of January, Tejun Heo posted the second
revision of a 30-part patch series, co-written with David Vernet, Josh
Don, and Barret Rhoden, that does just that. There are clearly interesting
things that could be done by deferring scheduling decisions to a BPF
program, but it may take some work to sell this idea to the development
community as a whole.