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Policy & RegulationEmerging1 sourceAug 14, 2026 · 10:04via Phoronix

Patches Posted For Fixing The Linux DRM Scheduler's Fair Policy

Brief

Ahead of the Linux 7. 2 kernel release expected out on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem was forced to revert their "fair" scheduler policy default new for this kernel. Due to a last minute user-reported regression, FIFO returns as the default DRM scheduler policy for Linux 7.

  • But patches are now available for addressing that regression and thus hopefully for Linux 7.

3 there will be the fair scheduler becoming the default...

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