Byron Clark wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:34:58PM -0600, Jeff Anderson wrote: > >> Byron Clark wrote: >> >>> I've been asked to give an "Introduction the Linux Kernel" presentation >>> for the UUG on July 9th. What kinds of things are you interested in >>> seeing? Here are some ideas, please feel free to add your own: >>> >>> >> Recently, I've been interested in kernel level thingies that decide what >> process gets what resource when and for how long. I know that there are >> various of models that the kernel can implement, and it'd be nice to >> understand a few of them. >> > > You're going to have to be a little more specific than "thingies". Are > you talking about CPU scheduling and timeslieces, I/O scheduling, kernel > locking primitives (spinlocks, mutexes, semaphores, BKL), userspace > locking primitives, or something else entirely? > I only used the word "thingies" because I wasn't sure if "scheduling" was the right term for what I had in mind, and I honestly know very very little about the internal workings of the kernel.
From the list you provided, CPU scheduling and I/O scheduling sound like what I had in mind, though I'm more interested in I/O scheduling than CPU scheduling. Thanks! Jeff Anderson
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