Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 12 August 2026 at 06:31 AM EDT. Add A Comment One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers.
- ▪Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 12 August 2026 at 06:31 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy.
- ▪The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers.
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| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:31:25 -0400 |
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Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 12 August 2026 at 06:31 AM EDT. Add A Comment One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2. Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia who led the fair scheduler work for DRM has decided to revert it for Linux 7.2. A set of 20 patches were sent out on Tuesday for reverting this change as a result of a user regression report.
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