Via OSNews [ http://www.osnews.com/story/23897/LinSched_a_Userspace_Linux_Scheduler_Simulator ], as announced in [ http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/12/279 ]
Sounds like a good tool for teachers to use in an Operating Systems course. ===== LinSched, a Userspace Linux Scheduler Simulator posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Oct 2010 09:55 UTC, submitted by diegocg Well, this is quite interesting. This is one of those items where I have to make sure everybody realises I'm no developer as to not make myself look like an idiot. Having said that - LinSched. It's a user-space program that hosts the Linux kernel scheduler, so you can create and test scheduling policies on arbitrary hardware topologies - without actually having to work with the real hardware. Originally developed at the University of North Carolina, it is being used by Google to test scheduler policies. "At Google we have used Linsched as a testing tool to validate the behavior of the kernel scheduler," details Google's Ranjit Manomohan, "We could cut down our validation time from several days to a couple of hours due to the ability to run multiple tests on several different types of hardware models." [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
