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\title{Linux process management / Scheduling / Daemons}
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\subsection{Process Management}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Binary formats}
A program file includes meta information which describes the format
of the executable. Linux uses the ELF format (Executable Linking Format)
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Process Memory Layout}
\begin{itemize}
\item text segment
\item initialized data segment
\item uninitialized data segment
\item stack
\item heap
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Process creation}
From the operatings system's point of view, there are basically two steps,
which are performed when starting a process.
\begin{itemize}
\item A process is created using the fork() system call
\item The execve() system call loads a new program into the process memory
\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Parent / Child}
\begin{itemize}
\item init is the first process, which is started (PID == 1), so
\item init is the parent of all processes on the system
\item A parent waits for its childs termination using the wait() system call
\item If the parent process terminates, before the child terminates, the child
is ''adopted'' by PID 1
\item A child which terminates before its parent was able to do a wait() is
turned into a ''Zombie''
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Task states}
Each task can have one of the following states:
\begin{itemize}
\item Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event) (S)
\item Uninterruptible sleep (waiting for I/O) (D)
\item Running (R)
\item Stopped (T)
\item Defunct / ''Zombie'' (Z)
\end{itemize}
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\frametitle{Task states}
''ps aux'' also shows the task state:
\begin{verbatim}
USER       PID         STAT       COMMAND
postfix   5034  [...]   S    [...] pickup -l
jan       5303  [...]   SN+  [...] man 8 init
jan       5313  [...]   SN+  [...] pager -s
jan       5390  [...]   SNl  [...] evince
jan       5416  [...]   SNs  [...] bash
\end{verbatim}
The first column in the STAT field shows the process state.
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\subsection{Scheduling}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{The LINUX Scheduler}
\begin{itemize}
\item Responsiveness
\item Fairness
\item Throughput
\item O(log n)
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Scheduling classes}
Normal processes:
\begin{itemize}
\item SCHED\_OTHER
\item SCHED\_BATCH (Linux specific; since 2.6.16)
\item SCHED\_IDLE (Linux specific; since 2.6.23)
\end{itemize}
Realtime:
\begin{itemize}
\item SCHED\_FIFO
\item SCHED\_RR
\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}
\frametitle{The nice value}
\begin{itemize}
\item Non-Realtime processes don't have a static priority!
\item Their priority is calculated dynamically
\item The calculation can be influenced by the ''nice value''
\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}
\frametitle{The nice value}
\begin{itemize}
\item The range for possible nice values is: -20 .. +19
\item It tells the system how ''NICE'' the process should behave towards other
processes. So, -20 means ''high priority'' and +19 ''low priority''
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{The nice value}
The nice value can be changed using the ''nice'' and the ''renice'' command:
\begin{verbatim}
Usage: nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
-n, --adjustment=N

renice [-n] prio [-p|--pid] pid  [.. pid]
renice [-n] prio  -g|--pgrp pgrp [.. pgrp]
renice [-n] prio  -u|--user user [.. user]
\end{verbatim}
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\begin{frame}
\frametitle{SCHED\_IDLE and SCHED\_BATCH}
\begin{itemize}
\item SCHED\_BATCH: The scheduler will always assume the process to be CPU
intensive and therefor will apply a penalty when calculating the dynamic
priority.
\item SCHED\_IDLE: For very low prio processes. Even the nice value is
ignored. The resulting priority will be \textbf{below} SCHED\_OTHER and SCHED\_BATCH
with nice +19 assigned to it!
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Realtime scheduling classes}
\begin{itemize}
\item SCHED\_FIFO: Static priority
\item SCHED\_RR: Priority based, Round Robin scheduling per priority
\end{itemize}
Both Realtime scheduling classes accept priorities from 1 to 99, where 99 is
the highest priority.
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\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Setting the Scheduling class}
The scheduling class can be set using the chrt command:
\begin{verbatim}
Set policy:
  chrt [opts] <policy> <prio> <pid>
  chrt [opts] <policy> <prio> <cmd> [<arg> ...]
Get policy:
  chrt [opts] {<pid> | <cmd> [<arg> ...]}
Scheduling policies:
-b | --batch set policy to SCHED_BATCH
-f | --fifo  set policy to SCHED_FIFO
-i | --idle  set policy to SCHED_IDLE
-o | --other set policy to SCHED_OTHER
-r | --rr    set policy to SCHED_RR (default)
\end{verbatim}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Setting scheduling class and priority}
\begin{lstlisting}
#include <sched.h>

struct sched_param param;
int ret;

params.prio = 80;
ret = sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
[...]
\end{lstlisting}
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\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Resource limits}
\begin{lstlisting}
#include <sys/resource.h>

int setrlimit(int resource,
           const struct rlimit *rlim);
\end{lstlisting}
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\subsection{Daemons}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Daemons}
\begin{alertblock}{What is a Daemon?}
A Daemon runs in background and is not attached to a terminal. Daemons are
used for specific tasks, such as a web-server, a printer server, ...
\end{alertblock}
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\begin{frame}
\frametitle{How a Daemon gets created}
\begin{itemize}
\item Like any other process, a Daemon is created using fork()
\item after forking the parent exits, which causes the child to be ''adopted''
by PID 1
\item then the child calls setsid(), to create a new session for that process
\item afterwards several administrative tasks will be done (like changing the
working directory and so on...)
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Multicore specific scheduling}
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\frametitle{Scheduling on Multicore Systems}
\begin{itemize}
\item CPU affinity
\item Kernelparameters:
\begin{itemize}
\item max\_cpus=
\item isolcpus=
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{CPU affinity}
\begin{lstlisting}
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sched.h>

cpu_set_t set;

CPU_ZERO(&set);
CPU_SET(0, &set);
CPU_SET(1, &set);

[...]

sched_setaffinity(pid, CPU_SETSIZE, &set);
\end{lstlisting}
\end{frame}

\subsection{sources}
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\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{kerisk10} The Linux Programming Interface (Michael Kerisk), no starch
press, ISBN 978-1-59327-220-3
\end{thebibliography} 
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