Difference b/w CKRM and other linux schedulers

Sowmya Sridharan sowmya.sridharan at tcs.com
Tue May 17 01:21:09 EDT 2011


> > In an attempt to understand CKRM, I need to find where it stands as 
compared
> > to O(1) and CFS?
> > What is difference between O(1), CFS and CKRM? What features 
differentiate
> > them?
> >
> > Appreciate your inputs with regards to this.
> 
> 
> Hi Sowmya
> >From what I understand CKRM was not a dedicated task scheduler as in
> the case of the old O(1) or the CFS but a project working towards the
> grouping and identifying of tasks as classes so that they could be
> managed/tracked according to a particular resource 'identity' at a
> higher systems management level. I don't think the CKRM project is
> active any more, but I could be wrong...
> 
> In the current kernel this functionality is now I believe provided for
> by cgroups. Read the files in Documentation/cgroups/ for more info on
> managing process aggregates this way.
> 
> Cheers
> Julie
> 
Thanks Julie!
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