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Understanding the Linux Kernel
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Understanding the Linux Kernel

by Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
704 pages
18h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 10. Process Scheduling

Like any time-sharing system, Linux achieves the magical effect of an apparent simultaneous execution of multiple processes by switching from one process to another in a very short time frame. Process switch itself was discussed in Chapter 3; this chapter deals with scheduling, which is concerned with when to switch and which process to choose.

The chapter consists of three parts. The Section 10.1 introduces the choices made by Linux to schedule processes in the abstract. Section 10.2 discusses the data structures used to implement scheduling and the corresponding algorithm. Finally, Section 10.3 describes the system calls that affect process scheduling.

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