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Implementation of a multi-queue scheduler(Updated: April 9, 2001)

Implementation of CPU Pooling and Loadbalancing extensions to the MQ

Implementation of a priority queue scheduler

Patches which implement the above schedulers are available under the "Latest File Releases" section of the LSE Project Page.

"Enhancing Linux Scheduler Scalability" Published Paper (PostScript format) Presentation Slides

"CPU Pooling and Load Balancing for Linux MultiQueue Scheduling" aka

"PMQS: Scalable Linux Scheduling for Highend Servers" Published Paper (PostScript format)

• 12/15/00: Preliminary Benchmark Results (These were initial results to motivate our work)
• 01/25/01: Progress/Status Report (lots of plots about scalability)
• 03/13/01: PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY, processor pooling and load balancing

• Reflex :  MicroBenchmark for evaluating scheduler performance based on task sets and token passing.  README  download (tar.bz2)

Davide Libenzi's Scheduler Stuff

Enterprise Workload and Resource Management homepage

Last updated: October 19, 2001. Any problems, additions, etc , please send email to maintainer.