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Mastering Linux Kernel Development

You're reading from   Mastering Linux Kernel Development A kernel developer's reference manual

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883057
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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CH Raghav Maruthi CH Raghav Maruthi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Comprehending Processes, Address Space, and Threads FREE CHAPTER 2. Deciphering the Process Scheduler 3. Signal Management 4. Memory Management and Allocators 5. Filesystems and File I/O 6. Interprocess Communication 7. Virtual Memory Management 8. Kernel Synchronization and Locking 9. Interrupts and Deferred Work 10. Clock and Time Management 11. Module Management

Scheduler classes


Let's now go deeper into each scheduling class and understand the operations, policies, and heuristics it engages in managing scheduling operations adeptly and elegantly for its processes. As mentioned earlier, an instance of struct sched_class must be provided by each scheduling class; let's look at some of the key elements from that structure:

  • enqueue_task: Basically adds a new process to the run queue
  • dequeue_task: When the process is taken off the runqueue
  • yield_task: When the process wants to relinquish CPU voluntarily
  • pick_next_task: The corresponding function of the pick_next_task called by schedule(). It picks up the next best runnable task from its class.
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