Processor scheduling in shared memory multiprocessors

Existing work indicates that the commonly used “single queue of runnable tasks” approach to scheduling shared memory multiprocessors can perform very poorly in a multiprogrammed parallel processing environment. A more promising approach is the class of “...

Processor scheduling policies for multiprocessor systems can be broadly divided into space-sharing and time-sharing policies. Space-sharing policies divide the system processors into a number of partitions and each partition is exclusively allocated to ...

Small-scale shared-memory multiprocessors are commonly used in a workgroup environment where multiple applications, both parallel and sequential, are executed concurrently while sharing the processors and other system resources. To utilize the ...