Fuzzing scheduler CFS

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:30:47 +0300, Meyer Lansky said:
> I would like to improve the code, but has not found a practical method of finding errors.

Bugs in the scheduler almost always manifest in one of two ways:

1) Truly spectacular crashes or hangs where you *know* you've found a bug.

2) Find a workload that it performs poorly (for instance - how does it deal on
a 4-core system with 8 processes that use enough memory that together, they
push the system into thrashing mode, plus 40 or 50 processes that only want
millisecond timeslices - but at a high realtime priority?  Can you find
other mixes that give it indigestion?

You're going to have to learn a lot about process scheduling to find bugs
in that code. And when I say a lot, I mean "probably as much as you'd cover in
a full-semester college course"....


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