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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2018
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Nathaniel McCallum, Raleigh, NC (US);
Monis Khan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Benjamin Petersen, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jonathan Toppins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for scheduling computing tasks in a computer system. A method of the disclosure includes maintaining a priority queue comprising a plurality of computing tasks sorted in view of a plurality of numerical representations of priorities associated with the plurality of computing tasks; determining an attribute mask for a processing unit of a computer system, the attribute mask comprising a numerical representation of at least one attribute of the processing unit; and identifying, in view of the attribute mask, a computing task in the priority queue of the sorted computing tasks for processing by the processing unit of the computer system.