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Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler

Via Meta Engineering ML
Monday, Jul 13, 2026 · 4:00PM
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TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance.  When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the upstream, BPF-based extensible scheduling framework — to bu

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