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