spec-glossary/glossary/scheduler.yml


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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
copyrights:
- Copyright (C) 1988, 1998 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)
enabled-by: true
glossary-type: term
links:
- role: glossary-member
  uid: ../glossary-general
term: scheduler
text: |
  A scheduler or scheduling algorithm allocates processors to a subset of
  its set of ready tasks.  So it manages access to the processor resource.
  Various algorithms exist to choose the tasks allowed to use a processor
  out of the set of ready tasks.  One method is to assign each task a
  priority number and assign the tasks with the lowest priority number to
  one processor of the set of processors owned by a scheduler instance.

  A scheduler is either an ${scheduler-eligible:/term} or a
  ${scheduler-ineligible:/term} for a task.  An ${scheduler-eligible:/term} is
  either the ${scheduler-home:/term} or a ${scheduler-helping:/term} for a
  task.
type: glossary