Packet 6: Bonus 6
This sort of algorithm was used in Con Kolivas’s Brain Fuck Scheduler, which incorporates a single queue no matter the number of CPUs in the system. For 10 points each:
[10h] What algorithm replaced the Completely Fair Scheduler in Linux as the preferred scheduler in 2023?
ANSWER: EEVDF [or earliest eligible virtual deadline first]
[10m] Linux performs scheduling using this component of the operating system, whose namesake memory space is separated from the “user space.” It executes system calls such as read and write.
ANSWER: kernel
[10e] The Linux kernel uses one of these structures to track the state and variables during an interrupt. “Push” and “pop” are used to add and remove elements from these data structures with “last-in first-out” behavior
ANSWER: stack [accept kernel stack]
<BC, Other Science (Computer Science)> | NAFTA-Packet-6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 13.72 | 88% | 47% | 2% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |