In Linux, process is actually a group of data structures including the context of process, scheduling data, semaphores, process queue, process id, time, signals, etc. This group of data is called ...

The information stored in each process descriptor (struct task_struct , defined in /kernel source-code/include/ linux/sched.h ) concerns with the run-state of a process, its address space, the list of ...

The Linux scheduler is invoked when the process being executed is blocked or voluntarily gives up the CPU, when the processor receives an interrupt or at the end of a 10-millisecond timeslice. The ...

The scheduler will compensate for the extra time used by that process by causing it to wait longer than it otherwise would for its next time slice. The result is fair scheduling, but higher ...