CS3 Operating Systems 2013-14, Practical Exercise.

PHASE 2
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The Scheduler
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You should now look in more detail at the scheduler, which is in some
sense the core of the kernel.

The paper
 Understanding the 2.6.8.1 Linux Scheduler 
 http://joshaas.net/linux/
will be very useful to you. (Local copy on the web page.)
While there have of course been some significant changes between 2.6.8
and 2.6.21, this paper still gives an adequate overview for the
purposes of this practical.

If you have not already looked at this, you should start reading it.
It's 38 pages long - PLEASE DON'T print it for yourself until the
pre-printed copies available from the ITO have run out.