Tagged: Linux

In Computer Systems, the CPU is much faster than the storage system, so ideally we want storage system read/write as fast as possible, unfortunately, the price of storage media increases exponentially with the access speed. Thus, in order to balance cost and performance, we designed a multi-layer memory hierarchy.

CPU Scheduling is a process of determining which process will own CPU for execution while another process is on hold. The main task of CPU scheduling is to make sure that whenever the CPU remains idle, the OS at least selects one of the processes available in the ready queue for execution.

In order to improve CPU utilization, and more effectively manage jobs in a multiprogramming system, the operation system(OS) abstracts the “process”. Each process has a Process Control Block(PCB*) which contains all information that OS required to manage the process, and resources in user space memory, they’re generally independent of each other, but the kernel space is shared, so communication between processes must go through the kernel.