[$] Evolving the LAVD scheduler from gaming to servers

The extensible scheduler class, which enables the creation of custom CPU 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.