What Scheduler Does Linux Use?
Contents the Completely Fair Scheduler (Cfs) Is a Process Scheduler Which Was Merged into the 2.6. 23 (October 2007) Release of the Linux Kernel and Is the...
The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) is a process scheduler which was merged into the 2.6. 23 (October 2007) release of the Linux kernel and is the default scheduler. It handles CPU resource allocation for executing processes, and aims to maximize overall CPU utilization while also maximizing interactive performance.
Does Linux scheduler threads or processes?
3 Answers. The Linux kernel scheduler is actually scheduling tasks, and these are either threads or (single-threaded) processes. A process is a non-empty finite set (sometimes a singleton) of threads sharing the same virtual address space (and other things like file descriptors, working directory, etc etc…).
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How does Linux scheduler processes?
As mentioned, the Linux operating system is preemptive. When a process enters the TASK_RUNNING state, the kernel checks whether its priority is higher than the priority of the currently executing process. If it is, the scheduler is invoked to pick a new process to run (presumably the process that just became runnable).
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