The Completely Fair Scheduler's Impact On Games

eldavojohn writes "We've heard a bit about the completely fair scheduler previously, but now Kernel Trap looks at the implications this new scheduler has for 3D games in Linux. Linus Torvalds noted, 'I don't think any scheduler is perfect, and almost all of the time, the RightAnswer(tm) ends up being not one or the other, but somewhere in between. But at the same time, no technical decision is ever written in stone. It's all a balancing act. I've replaced the scheduler before, I'm 100% sure we'll replace it again. Schedulers are actually not at all that important in the end: they are a very very small detail in the kernel.' The posts that follow the brief article, reveal that Linus seems quite confident that he made the right choice in his decision to merge CFS with the Linux kernel. One thing's for certain, gaming on Linux can't suffer any more setbacks or it may be many years before we see FOSS games rival the commercial world."

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Games.. only thing keeping me from linux full-time

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I've used linux quite a bit before.. but it is always stuck on a 2nd or 3rd box I have around. I love the new Ubuntu...

except.. gaming support on linux is shitty. The games I have run on linux worked okay - but it took hours to set them up properly. Unreal Tournament 2003 is the last one I played on linux that had a linux port available..

I play games about 10% of the time I use my computer.. nonetheless, bad gaming support is what keeps me from using Ubuntu 100% of the time. I do not feel like having 2 operating systems intalled on my computers.

I'm not a 'gamer' by any means.. but games are important enough to me to keep me using Windows.. I would love to switch.. but I'll switch when the linux coders decide to push for a more compatible gaming system.