Scheduling

Module – 3

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Scheduling
 Processes Scheduling
 CPU Scheduling
 Pre-emptive & non-pre-emptive
 Resource allocation and management
 Deadlocks
 Deadlock Handling Mechanisms

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 Process Management

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Process Management
 Scheduling: Primitive and non-Primitive Scheduling;
Scheduling Policies; Processes and Threads; real time Issues;
 Concurrency: The Idea of concurrent execution; state and
state diagram; Implementation Structures(ready list, process
control block and so forth); dispatching and context switching;
interrupt handling in concurrent environment;
 Mutual exclusion: Definition of the “mutual exclusion”
problem; Deadlock detection and prevention; solution
strategy; models and mechanism(semaphores, monitors,
condition variables, rendezvous); Producer-consumer
problems; synchronization; multiprocessor issues

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Process Scheduling

Maximize CPU use, quickly switch processes

onto CPU for time sharing
Process scheduler selects among available
processes for next execution on CPU

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Process Scheduling
Is an OS task that schedules processes of different
states like ready, waiting, and running.

Process scheduling allows OS to allocate a time

interval of CPU execution for each process.

Another important reason for using a process

scheduling system is that it keeps the CPU busy all
the time.

This allows you to get the minimum response time

for programs.

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Process Scheduling
Three types of operating system queues are:

Job queue – It helps you to store all the processes in

the system.

Ready queue – This type of queue helps you to set

every process residing in the main memory, which is
ready and waiting to execute.

Device queues – It is a process that is blocked because

of the absence of an I/O device.

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Ready Queue And Various I/O Device Queues

•Linked list – A queue

header contains
pointers to the first and
final PCBs in the list.

•Each PCB is extended

to include a pointer field
that points to the next
PCB in the queue.

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Representation of Process Scheduling

 Queueing diagram represents queues, resources, flows

•Arrow indicates the

flow of the process.

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Schedulers

Short-term scheduler (or CPU scheduler)

Long-term scheduler (or job scheduler)

Medium-term scheduler

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Short-term scheduler / CPU scheduler

Short term scheduling is also known as CPU scheduler.

The short-term scheduler's main job is to choose a process

from the Ready Queue that is ready to run and assign the
processor to it.

The dispatcher gives control of the CPU to the process

selected by the short term scheduler.

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Short-term scheduler / CPU scheduler

selects which process should be executed next and allocates

CPU

Sometimes only scheduler in a system

invoked in (milliseconds)  (must be fast)

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Long-term scheduler / job scheduler

Long term scheduler is also known as a job

scheduler.

This scheduler regulates the program and

select process from the queue and loads
them into memory for execution.

It also regulates the degree of multi-

programing.

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Long-term scheduler / job scheduler

selects which processes should be brought

into the ready queue

invoked infrequently in (seconds, minutes)

The long-term scheduler controls the degree of multiprogramming

Processes can be described as either:

I/O-bound process
CPU-bound process

Long-term scheduler strives for good process mix

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 Long Term Scheduler Short Term Scheduler
It is an operating system scheduler that chooses It is an operating system scheduler that chooses
processes from the job queue and loads them the process from the several processes that
to execution in the main memory. the processor runs.
It is also referred to as the Job Scheduler. It is also referred to as a CPU scheduler.

It is slower. It is faster.
It controls the multiprogramming degree. It provides less control over the multiprogramming
degree.
It selects the process less frequently. It selects the process more frequently.

It is always present in the Batch OS and can or It is present in the Batch OS and is only minimally
cannot be present at all in the Time-Sharing OS. present in the Time-Sharing OS.

It chooses the processes from the job pool. It chooses the processes from the ready queue.

It chooses a good process that is a mix-up of It chooses a new process for a processor quite
input/output bound and CPU bound. frequently.

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Medium Term Scheduling
It is an important part of swapping.
It enables you to handle the swapped out-processes.
In this scheduler, a running process can become suspended, which makes an I/O
request.

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Medium Term Scheduling
 Is added if degree of multiple programming needs to
be decreased
A running process can become suspended if it makes an I/O request.

A suspended processes can’t make any progress towards completion.

In order to remove the process from memory and make space for other
processes, the suspended process should be moved to secondary
storage.

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 CPU Scheduling

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CPU Scheduling
 Basic Concepts
 Scheduling Criteria
 Scheduling Algorithms
 Multiple-Processor Scheduling
 Real-Time Scheduling
 Thread Scheduling
 Operating Systems Examples
 Java Thread Scheduling
 Algorithm Evaluation

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Basic Concepts
 Maximum CPU utilization obtained with
multiprogramming
 CPU–I/O Burst Cycle – Process execution
consists of a cycle of CPU execution and
I/O wait
 CPU burst distribution

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Alternating Sequence of CPU And I/O Bursts

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CPU Scheduler
 Whenever the CPU becomes idle, the OS
must select one of the processes in the ready
queue to be executed

 The selection process is carried out by the

short-term scheduler

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Diagram of Process State

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Preemptive scheduling vs. non-preemptive scheduling

CPU scheduling decisions may take place when a

process:

1. Switches from running to waiting state

2. Terminates
3. Switches from waiting to ready
4. Switches from running to ready state

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Preemptive scheduling vs. non-preemptive scheduling

 When scheduling takes place only under

circumstances 1 and 2, we say that the scheduling
scheme is non-preemptive; otherwise, its called
preemptive

 Under non-preemptive scheduling, once the CPU

has been allocated to a process, the process keep
the CPU until it release the CPU either by
terminating or by switching to waiting state.

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Preemptive scheduling vs. non-preemptive scheduling

 Preemptive scheduling incurs a cost associated with

access to share data.

 Consider the case of two processes that share a

data. It is preemptive so that while one process is
updating the data, the second process then tries to
read the data, which are in an inconsistent state.

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Dispatcher
 Dispatcher module gives control of the CPU
to the process selected by the short-term
scheduler; this involves:
 switching context
 switching to user mode
 jumping to the proper location in the user
program to restart that program
 Dispatch latency – time it takes for the
dispatcher to stop one process and start
another running

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Scheduling Criteria
 CPU utilization – keep the CPU as busy as possible
 Throughput – # of processes that complete their
execution per time unit
 Turnaround time – amount of time to execute a
particular process
 Waiting time – amount of time a process has been
waiting in the ready queue
 Response time – amount of time it takes from
when a request was submitted until the first
response is produced, not output (for time-sharing
environment)

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Optimization Criteria
• Max CPU utilization
• Max throughput
• Min turnaround time
• Min waiting time
• Min response time

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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) Scheduling

Process Burst Time

P1 24
P2 3
P3 3
 Suppose that the processes arrive in the order: P1 ,
P2 , P3
The Gantt Chart for the schedule is:
P1 P2 P3

0 24 27 30
 Waiting time for P1 = 0; P2 = 24; P3 = 27
 Average waiting time: (0 + 24 + 27)/3 = 17

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FCFS Scheduling (Contd...)

• Turnaround Time – The interval from the time

of submission of a process to the time of
completion is turnaround time
• Response Time – the amount of time it takes
to start responding
Process Burst Arrival Start Wait Finish
Time
1 24 0 0 0 24
2 3 0 24 24 27
3 3 0 27 27 30

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Process Burst Arrival Start Wait Finish TA RT
Time
1 24 0 0 0 24 24 0
2 3 0 24 24 27 27 24
3 3 0 27 27 30 30 27

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 Process Burst Time Arrival

1 12 0
2 6 1
3 9 4

Turnaround Time –
Average Turnaround time = (12+17+23)/3
=17.33ms
Response Time –
Average Response Time = (0+11+14)/3 = 8.33ms

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Process Burst Arrival Start Wait Finish TA RT
Time
1 12 0 0 0 12 12 0
2 6 1 12 11 18 17 11
3 9 4 18 14 27 23 14

Average Waiting Time = (0+11+14)/3 = 8.33ms

Average Turnaround Time =(12+17+23)/3 =17.33ms
Average Response = (0+11+14)/3 = 8.33ms

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Process Burst Time Arrival

1 10 0
2 29 0
3 3 0
4 7 0
5 12 0

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Process Burst Arrival Start Wait Finish TA RT
Time
1 10 0 0 0 10 10 0
2 29 0 10 10 39 39 10
3 3 0 39 39 42 42 39
4 7 0 42 42 49 49 42
5 12 0 49 49 61 61 49

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FCFS Scheduling (Contd...)
Suppose that the processes arrive in the order
P2 , P3 , P1
 The Gantt chart for the schedule is:
P2 P3 P1

0 3 6 30

 Waiting time for P1 = 6; P2 = 0; P3 = 3

 Average waiting time: (6 + 0 + 3)/3 = 3
 Much better than previous case
 Convoy effect short process behind long process

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Shortest-Job-First (SJF) Scheduling
 Associate with each process the length of its next CPU
burst. Use these lengths to schedule the process with
the shortest time
 Two schemes:
 Non-preemptive – once CPU given to the process it cannot
be preempted until completes its CPU burst
 preemptive – if a new process arrives with CPU burst
length less than remaining time of current executing
process, preempt. This scheme is know as the
Shortest-Remaining-Time-First (SRTF)
 SJF is optimal – gives minimum average waiting time
for a given set of processes

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Example of Non-Preemptive SJF
Process Arrival Time Burst Time
P1 0.0 7
P2 2.0 4
P3 4.0 1
P4 5.0 4
• SJF (non-preemptive)

P1 P3 P2 P4

0 3 7 8 12 16

• Average waiting time = (0 + 6 + 3 + 7)/4 = 4

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Example of Preemptive SJF
Process Arrival Time Burst Time
P1 0.0 7
P2 2.0 4
P3 4.0 1
P4 5.0 4
• SJF (preemptive)
P1 P2 P3 P2 P4 P1

0 2 4 5 7 11 16

• Average waiting time = (9 + 1 + 0 +2)/4 = 3

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Determining Length of Next CPU Burst
• Can only estimate the length
• Can be done by using the length of previous
CPU bursts, using exponential averaging
1. t n = actual length of nth CPU burst
2. τ n+ 1= predicted value for the next CPU burst
3. α , 0≤ α ≤ 1
4. Define: τ = α t + 1− α τ
( . )
n+ 1 n n
• The parameter α controls the relative weight of recent and past history in our
prediction. Tn stores the past history.

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Prediction of the Length of the Next CPU Burst

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Examples of Exponential Averaging
•  =0
– n+1 = n
– Recent history does not count
•  =1
– n+1 =  tn
– Only the actual last CPU burst counts
• If we expand the formula, we get:
n+1 =  tn+(1 - ) tn-1 + …
+(1 -  )j  tn -j + …
+(1 -  )n +1 0
• Since both  and (1 - ) are less than or equal to 1,
each successive term has less weight than its
predecessor

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Priority Scheduling
• A priority number (integer) is associated with each
process
• The CPU is allocated to the process with the highest
priority (smallest integer  highest priority)
– Preemptive
– nonpreemptive
• SJF is a priority scheduling where priority is the
predicted next CPU burst time
• Problem  Starvation – low priority processes may
never execute
• Solution  Aging – as time progresses increase the
priority of the process

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Round Robin (RR)
 Each process gets a small unit of CPU time (time
quantum), usually 10-100 milliseconds. After this
time has elapsed, the process is preempted and
added to the end of the ready queue.
 If there are n processes in the ready queue and
the time quantum is q, then each process gets 1/n
of the CPU time in chunks of at most q time units
at once. No process waits more than (n-1)q time
units.
 Performance
q large  FIFO
q small  q must be large with respect to context
switch, otherwise overhead is too high

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Example of RR with Time Quantum = 20

Process Burst Time

P1 53
P2 17
P3 68
P4 24
 The Gantt chart is:

P1 P2 P3 P4 P1 P3 P4 P1 P3 P3

0 20 37 57 77 97 117 121 134 154 162

 Typically, higher average turnaround than SJF, but

better response

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Time Quantum and Context Switch Time

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Turnaround Time Varies With The Time Quantum

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Multilevel Queue
 Ready queue is partitioned into separate queues:
foreground (interactive)
background (batch)
 Each queue has its own scheduling algorithm
 foreground – RR
 background – FCFS
 Scheduling must be done between the queues
 Fixed priority scheduling; (i.e., serve all from foreground then
from background). Possibility of starvation.
 Time slice – each queue gets a certain amount of CPU time
which it can schedule amongst its processes; i.e., 80% to
foreground in RR
 20% to background in FCFS

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Multilevel Queue Scheduling

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Multilevel Feedback Queue
 A process can move between the various
queues; aging can be implemented this way
 Multilevel-feedback-queue scheduler defined
by the following parameters:
 number of queues
 scheduling algorithms for each queue
 method used to determine when to upgrade a
process
 method used to determine when to demote a
process
 method used to determine which queue a process
will enter when that process needs service

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Example of Multilevel Feedback Queue

 Three queues:
 Q0 – RR with time quantum 8 milliseconds
 Q1 – RR time quantum 16 milliseconds
 Q2 – FCFS
 Scheduling
 A new job enters queue Q0 which is served FCFS.
When it gains CPU, job receives 8 milliseconds. If it
does not finish in 8 milliseconds, job is moved to
queue Q1.
 At Q1 job is again served FCFS and receives 16
additional milliseconds. If it still does not complete,
it is preempted and moved to queue Q2.

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Multilevel Feedback Queues

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Multiple-Processor Scheduling
 CPU scheduling more complex when
multiple CPUs are available
 Homogeneous processors within a
multiprocessor
 Load sharing
 Asymmetric multiprocessing – only one
processor accesses the system data
structures, alleviating the need for data
sharing

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Real-Time Scheduling
 Hard real-time systems – required to
complete a critical task within a guaranteed
amount of time
 Soft real-time computing – requires that
critical processes receive priority over less
fortunate ones

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Thread Scheduling
 Local Scheduling – How the threads library
decides which thread to put onto an
available LWP

 Global Scheduling – How the kernel

decides which kernel thread to run next

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Pthread Scheduling API
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define NUM THREADS 5
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
pthread t tid[NUM THREADS];
pthread attr t attr;
/* get the default attributes */
pthread attr init(&attr);
/* set the scheduling algorithm to PROCESS or SYSTEM */
pthread attr setscope(&attr, PTHREAD SCOPE SYSTEM);
/* set the scheduling policy - FIFO, RT, or OTHER */
pthread attr setschedpolicy(&attr, SCHED OTHER);
/* create the threads */
for (i = 0; i < NUM THREADS; i++)
pthread create(&tid[i],&attr,runner,NULL);

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Pthread Scheduling API
/* now join on each thread */
for (i = 0; i < NUM THREADS; i++)
pthread join(tid[i], NULL);
}
/* Each thread will begin control in this function */
void *runner(void *param)
{
printf("I am a thread\n");
pthread exit(0);
}

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Operating System Examples

• Solaris scheduling
• Windows XP scheduling
• Linux scheduling

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Solaris 2 Scheduling

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Solaris Dispatch Table

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Windows XP Priorities

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Linux Scheduling
 Two algorithms: time-sharing and real-time
 Time-sharing
 Prioritized credit-based – process with most credits
is scheduled next
 Credit subtracted when timer interrupt occurs
 When credit = 0, another process chosen
 When all processes have credit = 0, recrediting
occurs
 Based on factors including priority and history
 Real-time
 Soft real-time
 Posix.1b compliant – two classes
 FCFS and RR
 Highest priority process always runs first

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The Relationship Between Priorities and Time-slice length

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List of Tasks Indexed According to Prorities

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Algorithm Evaluation
 Deterministic modeling – takes a particular
predetermined workload and defines the
performance of each algorithm for that
workload
 Queueing models
 Implementation

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 5.08

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 In-5.7

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 In-5.8

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 In-5.9

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Dispatch Latency

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Java Thread Scheduling

• JVM Uses a Preemptive, Priority-Based

Scheduling Algorithm

• FIFO Queue is Used if There Are Multiple

Threads With the Same Priority

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Java Thread Scheduling (cont)

JVM Schedules a Thread to Run When:

1. The Currently Running Thread Exits the Runnable

State
2. A Higher Priority Thread Enters the Runnable
State

* Note – the JVM Does Not Specify Whether

Threads are Time-Sliced or Not

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Time-Slicing
Since the JVM Doesn’t Ensure Time-Slicing, the yield()
Method
May Be Used:

while (true) {
// perform CPU-intensive task
...
Thread.yield();
}

This Yields Control to Another Thread of Equal Priority

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Thread Priorities

Priority Comment
Thread.MIN_PRIORITY Minimum Thread Priority
Thread.MAX_PRIORITY Maximum Thread Priority
Thread.NORM_PRIORITY Default Thread
Priority

Priorities May Be Set Using setPriority() method:

setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY + 2);

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References

Silberschatz, Gagne, Galvin: Operating System Concepts, 6th Edition

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