Deadline Scheduling Proposed For the Linux Kernel

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @01:18AM 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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Re:How does this compare by SlothDead · 2009-10-20 02:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

Please don't split your sentences, putting one half in the subject, the other half in the comment. Not everyone reads the subjects, since they are often useless, and reading just "to *BSD's "dead scheduling"?" sounds like a toast!