Project

CS 221 - AOS
Project Proposal
By Caixue and Vaibhav

Topic : Experiment with kernel-level task scheduling, including replacing the current Linux task scheduler and improving it.

Project Proposal Time Line:

1. Topic : work Day 1 (12 jan):
   1. Scheduling algorithms - Lin
   2. Linux Kernel 2.4 - Vaibhav
2. Topic: Proposal Draft Date (13)
3. The Ideas: List

1. Proposed Distribution of work
2. Work as done
3. Intially meet once a week!
4. Project Mails.
5. "27/02" Start Documentation

References

• Understanding the Linux Kernel, Daneil P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
• Loadable Scheduler Modules on Linux(beta), Scott Rhine.
• Some Discussion on the Low Latency Patch for Linux, Yu-Chung Wang and Kwei-Jay Lin.
• Linux Process Scheduling, Andreas Schlabach.
• The BEST Linux Scheduler., Scott etal.

Benchmarks

• Baseline--Linux 2.4.
• MHZ(uni and multi processor), Larry McVoy.
• Imbench , Larry McVoy.

Acknowledgements: Hubertus [email protected], Scott [email protected].