Earliest eligible virtual deadline first scheduling

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Earliest eligible virtual deadline first (EEVDF) is a dynamic priority proportional share scheduling algorithm for soft real-time systems. [1]

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Algorithm

EEVDF was first described in the 1995 paper "Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First : A Flexible and Accurate Mechanism for Proportional Share Resource Allocation" by Ion Stoica and Hussein Abdel-Wahab. [2] It uses notions of virtual time, eligible time, virtual requests and virtual deadlines for determining scheduling priority. [1] It has the property that when a job keeps requesting service, the amount of service obtained is always within the maximum quantum size of what it is entitled. [3]

Linux kernel scheduler

In 2023, Peter Zijlstra proposed replacing the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) in the Linux kernel with an EEVDF process scheduler. [4] [5] The aim was to remove the need for CFS "latency nice" patches. [6] The EEVDF scheduler replaced CFS in version 6.6 of the Linux kernel. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Erickson, Jeremy P.; Anderson, James H. (September 2, 2022). Tian, Yu-Chu; Levy, David Charles (eds.). Handbook of Real-Time Computing. Springer Nature. pp. 233–267. doi:10.1007/978-981-287-251-7_4 – via Springer Link.
  2. ↑ Stoica, Ion; M. Abdel-Wahab, Hussein (1995). Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First : A Flexible and Accurate Mechanism for Proportional Share Resource Allocation (Technical report). CS Dpt., Old Dominion Univ. TR-95-22.
  3. ↑ Epema, D. H. J. (November 2, 1998). "Decay-usage scheduling in multiprocessors". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 16 (4): 367–415. doi: 10.1145/292523.292535 .
  4. ↑ "EEVDF Scheduler May Be Ready For Landing With Linux 6.6". Phoronix . Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  5. ↑ "[PATCH 00/10] sched: EEVDF using latency-nice [LWN.net]". LWN.net .
  6. ↑ Corbet, Jonathan (9 March 2023). "An EEVDF CPU scheduler for Linux [LWN.net]". LWN.net . Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  7. ↑ "EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced". Phoronix .
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