By in large, with the introduction of scheduling classes, implementing a new scheduling policy for Linux kernel is a much easier task. Nevertheless, there are problems in the small details, and in ...

The Linux scheduler is invoked when the process being executed is blocked or voluntarily gives up the CPU, when the processor receives an interrupt or at the end of a 10-millisecond timeslice. The ...

The scheduler will compensate for the extra time used by that process by causing it to wait longer than it otherwise would for its next time slice. The result is fair scheduling, but higher ...