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Optimizing utilization with the EDF scheduler

Mr. Efficient

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Linux development has increasingly focused on the needs of real-time applications, so it is only logical to equip the kernel with an Earliest Deadline First scheduler. This option presents various advantages compared with conventional priority-driven scheduling.

Infos

  1. Deadline task scheduling in the kernel documentation: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
  2. New system call sched_setattr: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sched_setattr.2.html
  3. Juri Lelli, "SCHED_DEADLINE, How to Use It", Online-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmyfSjRMcIY
  4. Listings for this article: ftp://ftp.linux-magazin.com/pub/listings/admin-magazine.com/25

The Author

Eva-Katharina Kunst has been an avid supporter of open source since the beginnings of Linux. Jürgen Quade, professor at the Lower Rhine University, published his third Linux book at the end of April: Embedded Linux Learning with the Raspberry Pi .

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