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Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling: Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Operating System Concepts - 8 Edition

The document discusses different CPU scheduling algorithms including first-come first-served, shortest job first, priority scheduling, round robin, and multilevel queue scheduling. It provides examples and comparisons of each algorithm.

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Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling: Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Operating System Concepts - 8 Edition

The document discusses different CPU scheduling algorithms including first-come first-served, shortest job first, priority scheduling, round robin, and multilevel queue scheduling. It provides examples and comparisons of each algorithm.

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Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling

Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009
Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling
 Basic Concepts

 Scheduling Criteria

 Scheduling Algorithms
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


Alternating Sequence of CPU and
I/O Bursts
Histogram of CPU-burst Times
CPU Scheduler
 Selects from among the processes in ready queue, and allocates the CPU to one of them
 Queue may be ordered in various ways
 CPU scheduling decisions may take place when a process:
1. Switches from running to waiting state
2. Switches from running to ready state
3. Switches from waiting to ready
4. Terminates
 Scheduling under 1 and 4 is non preemptive
 All other scheduling is preemptive
 Consider access to shared data
 Consider preemption while in kernel mode
 Consider interrupts occurring during crucial OS activities
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
Scheduling Criteria
 CPU utilization – keep the CPU as busy as possible

 Throughput – no 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)
Scheduling Algorithm Optimization Criteria

 Max CPU utilization


 Max throughput
 Min turnaround time
 Min waiting time
 Min response time
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
FCFS Scheduling (Cont.)
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
 Consider one CPU-bound and many I/O-bound processes
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

 SJF is optimal – gives minimum average waiting time for a given set of processes
 The difficulty is knowing the length of the next CPU request
 Could ask the user
Example of SJF
ProcessArriva l Time Burst Time
P1 0.0 6
P2 2.0 8
P3 4.0 7
P4 5.0 3
 SJF scheduling chart

P4 P1 P3 P2

0 3 9 16 24

 Average waiting time = (3 + 16 + 9 + 0) / 4 = 7


Determining Length of Next CPU Burst
 Can only estimate the length – should be similar to the previous one
 Then pick process with shortest predicted next CPU burst

 Can be done by using the length of previous CPU bursts, using exponential averaging

1. t n  actual length of n th CPU burst


2.  n 1  predicted value for the next CPU burst
3.  , 0    1
4. Define :
 Commonly, α set to ½
 Preemptive version called shortest-remaining-time-first

 n 1   t n   1    n .
Example of Shortest-remaining-time-first
 Now we add the concepts of varying arrival times and preemption to the analysis

ProcessA arri Arrival TimeT Burst Time


P1 0 8
P2 1 4
P3 2 9
P4 3 5
 Preemptive SJF Gantt Chart

P1 P2 P4 P1 P3

0 1 5 10 17 26
 Average waiting time = [(10-1)+(1-1)+(17-2)+5-3)]/4 = 26/4 = 6.5 msec
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 priority scheduling where priority is the inverse of predicted next CPU burst time

 Problem  Starvation – low priority processes may never execute

 Solution  Aging – as time progresses increase the priority of the process


Example of Priority Scheduling
ProcessA arri Burst TimeT Priority
P1 10 3
P2 1 1
P3 2 4
P4 1 5
P5 5 2
 Priority scheduling Gantt Chart

P2 P5 P1 P3 P4

0 1 6 16 18 19

 Average waiting time = 8.2 msec


Round Robin (RR)
 Each process gets a small unit of CPU time (time quantum q), 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.
 Timer interrupts every quantum to schedule next process
 Performance
 q large  FIFO
 q small  q must be large with respect to context switch, otherwise overhead is too high
Example of RR with Time Quantum = 4

Process Burst Time


P1 24
P2 3
P3 3

 The Gantt chart is:

P1 P2 P3 P1 P1 P1 P1 P1

0 4 7 10 14 18 22 26 30
 Typically, higher average turnaround than SJF, but better response
 q should be large compared to context switch time
 q usually 10ms to 100ms, context switch < 10 usec
Time Quantum and Context Switch Time
Turnaround Time Varies With
The Time Quantum

80% of CPU bursts should


be shorter than q
Multilevel Queue
 Ready queue is partitioned into separate queues, eg:
 foreground (interactive)
 background (batch)
 Process permanently in a given queue

 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
Multilevel Queue Scheduling
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
Multilevel Feedback Queues
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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