Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

CPU is a primary computer resource. So, its scheduling is central to operating system design. To improve both utilization and the speed of CPU the authors need to keep several processes in memory at a ...

The ability in Linux to bind one or more processes to one or more processors, called CPU affinity, is a long-requested feature. The idea is to say “always run this process on processor one” or “run ...