Linux SCHED_OTHER, SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR – differences

SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR are so called “real-time” policies. They implement the fixed-priority real-time scheduling specified by the POSIX standard. Tasks with these policies preempt every other task, which can thus easily go into starvation (if they don’t release the CPU). The difference between SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR is that among tasks with the same priority, SCHED_RR … Read more