{
  "id": 7797681,
  "title": "Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/linux-randomly-picking-idle-cpu-cores-shows-modest-win-on-high-core",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T13:30:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Random-Equal-Idle-CPUs"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}