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Processes and Scheduling: Reading Guide

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/systems/semester-05-os-networking/module-01-processes-scheduling/reading-guide.md
  • App: systems
  • Semester: semester-05-os-networking
  • Module: module-01-processes-scheduling
  • Unit kind: other
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Trace Processes and Scheduling: Reading Guide using the language of processes, scheduling policy, and kernel-visible state.
  • Compare the abstraction in the learner page against concrete scheduler behavior you can observe or reason about on a real system.
  • Use ostep to connect the learner explanation to metrics, tradeoffs, and debugging evidence.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort reasoning about CPU, memory, and the kernel/user boundary from earlier systems work.

Source books​

  • ostep

Source routes​

Ostep​

Supporting curriculum routes​

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

External enrichment​

  • man 7 sched (official_docs_companion) - Anchors scheduler concepts in the actual Linux process scheduling interface and policy vocabulary.
  • Linux Kernel Documentation: Scheduler (optional_deep_dive) - Useful after the learner has the concept page, when they want to see how theory lands in kernel design.

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Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance. Its canonical source backbone is the referenced book ostep, and outside material should only clarify or strengthen that backbone.