The Linux Plumbers 2017 scheduler workload track will focus on understanding various workloads and their impact on the scheduler. Our objective is to initiate a cross organizational and architectural discussion involving currently available(or in development) benchmarks and their effectiveness in evaluating the scheduler for these workloads.

A reliable and scalable benchmark that can be run without too much setup overhead will always help in identifying scheduler issues for different architectures. Some of the questions we hope can be answered, whether we have all the benchmarks we need or new ones need to be developed. In the long run, this will help in achieving higher scalability and debug performance related issues easily.

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