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Scheduling nightmares

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 • 12:00 - 12:30


Abstract

I'll give an overview of the current status of SCHED_DEADLINE as well as mention various bugs, limitations and in-progress extentions to it. I will also talk about the direction we want to take it in and mention opportunities for future work.

Audience

Everyone who uses, wants to use or hack on SCHED_DEADLINE. That is everyone who has a periodic (hard or soft) realtime task or thinks they might have.

Biography

Peter Zijlstra, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Peter is the co-maintainer of the Linux scheduler, perf events and locking infrastructure. He has worked on PREEMPT_RT and various parts of the kernel during the past 10 years.