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Predictable Management of System Resources for Linux

Mansoor Alicherry1

K Gopinath2

Department of Computer Science & Automation
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

• • Abstract
• Introduction
  • Scheduling Anomalies in Current Operating Systems
  • What Useful Scheduling Models Exist?
  • Brief Overview of the Linux Scheduler
  • Related Work
• The RCLinux Resource Container Model
  • Resource Container Data Structures
  • Global Data Structures
  • Resource Container Scheduler Framework
  • rc_schedule() routine
  • RCLinux Resource Container APIs
    • System Calls
• RCLinux Kernel Modifications and Redesign
  • Changes to the File Management Subsystem
  • Changes to Network Subsystem
  • Changes to schedule()
  • Changes to fork() and exit()
  • System Initialization
  • /proc Interface
  • Other Changes
• Experimental Evaluation
  • Performance overhead
  • Use of fixed CPU share
  • Allocation of CPU in presence of fixed share and shared containers
  • Scheduling for Multimedia
• Conclusions and Future Work
• Bibliography
• About this document ...

This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, Masssachusetts, USA Last changed: 21 June 2001 bleu

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