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Use of Performance Reflection in OS Kernels

The OS kernel can use the overhead and productivity metrics to reactively change its policies, such as changing the quantum size or the scheduling policy. In this section, we discuss a few applications of performance reflection in scheduling.

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Sameh Mohamed Elnikety 2003-06-15