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Chapter 8 covers interrupt processing and process scheduling. It describes the PC’s interrupts hardware, interrupts processing sequence and process kernel mode stack for interrupts processing. It incorporates PC’s timer into the MTX kernel, demonstrates timer-based process switching and implements timer service functions. Then it discusses process scheduling in time-shared systems. It explains the goals, policies and algorithms of process scheduling in general, and it describes process scheduling in Unix and Linux in detail. It implements several different process scheduling algorithms in MTX and compares their effects on the system performance.
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Wang, K. (2015). Interrupt Processing and Process Scheduling. In: Design and Implementation of the MTX Operating System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17575-1_8
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