Linux Resource Management
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Internal
CPU
Schedulers
CFS Scheduler
The CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) aims at dividing the CPU time fairly among the processes. The processor time is divided in quantas, and for each quanta, the scheduler attempts to distribute the processor time fairly across the processes in the ready queue.
The implementation monitors the virtual runtime for each process (vruntime). At every scheduling point, if the process has run for t milliseconds, vruntime is incremented with t, henceforth vruntime monotonically increases for a process.