Module: Scheduling

Scheduling definitions, standard algorithms, OS implementations

Learning Outcomes

Understand motivation for OS scheduling and how it is implemented

Understand the need for scheduling at the OS level
Understand how scheduling impacts system performance and reactivity
Know standard scheduling algorithms/strategies and be able to apply them to job mixes
Gain hands-on experience implementing a Scheduling simulation in Java

Readings

Scheduling

Scheduling definitions, standard algorithms, what OSes do

Lecture notes

Textbook Reading

Operating System Concepts, Sections 3.2, 6.1-3, 6.7-9

Reading