Reading Assignment 3: Scheduling

Mandatory papers to read:

• T.E. Anderson, B.N. Bershad, E.D. Lazowska, H.M. Levy, Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level management of Parallelism
• C.A. Waldspurger, W.E. Weihl, Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
• M.S. Squillante and E.D. Lazowska, Using Processor-Cache Affinity Information in Shared Memory Multiprocessor Scheduling
• L.I. Kontothanassis, R.W. Wisniewski, and M.L. Scott, Scheduler-conscious synchronisation

Read all of the mandatory papers and select two of the papers to write a report for.

Due date for your report: September 25, 2025. No deadline extensions are possible. Bring your printed report to the lecture.

Detailed instructions can be found here.