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Mastering Linux Kernel Development

By : CH Raghav Maruthi
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Mastering Linux Kernel Development

By: CH Raghav Maruthi

Overview of this book

Mastering Linux Kernel Development looks at the Linux kernel, its internal arrangement and design, and various core subsystems, helping you to gain significant understanding of this open source marvel. You will look at how the Linux kernel, which possesses a kind of collective intelligence thanks to its scores of contributors, remains so elegant owing to its great design. This book also looks at all the key kernel code, core data structures, functions, and macros, giving you a comprehensive foundation of the implementation details of the kernel’s core services and mechanisms. You will also look at the Linux kernel as well-designed software, which gives us insights into software design in general that are easily scalable yet fundamentally strong and safe. By the end of this book, you will have considerable understanding of and appreciation for the Linux kernel.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Scheduler classes


Let's now go deeper into each scheduling class and understand the operations, policies, and heuristics it engages in managing scheduling operations adeptly and elegantly for its processes. As mentioned earlier, an instance of struct sched_class must be provided by each scheduling class; let's look at some of the key elements from that structure:

  • enqueue_task: Basically adds a new process to the run queue
  • dequeue_task: When the process is taken off the runqueue
  • yield_task: When the process wants to relinquish CPU voluntarily
  • pick_next_task: The corresponding function of the pick_next_task called by schedule(). It picks up the next best runnable task from its class.