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Deadline Scheduling Proposed For the Linux Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the work-expands-to-fill-the-available-time-slices dept.

c1oud writes "At the last Real-Time Linux Workshop, held in September in Dresden, there was a lot of discussion about the possibility of enhancing real-time capabilities of Linux by adding a new scheduling class to the Linux kernel. According to most kernel developers, this new scheduling class should be based on the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) real-time algorithm. The first draft of the scheduling class was called 'SCHED_EDF,' and it was proposed and discussed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) just before the workshop. Recently, a second version of the scheduling class (called 'SCHED_DEADLINE,' to meet the request of some kernel developers) was proposed. Moreover, the code has been moved to a public git repository on Gitorius. The implementation is part of a FP7 European project called ACTORS, and financially supported by the European commission. More details are available."

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  1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't get the first post because pulseaudio crashed my system, and my wifi wouldn't connect.
    Then I had to finish my windows 7 torrent, install it, and now I can post.

    Linux isn't ready for the first post.

  2. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux isn't ready for the first post.

    But Windows is ready for the last post.

  3. Re:first post by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't get the first post because pulseaudio crashed my system

    It isn't PA that's crashing your system. It's the drivers, and PA just exposes defects that were already in the drivers.

  4. Re:first post by daem0n1x · · Score: 5, Funny

    IMHO, Windows is ready for the whipping post.