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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2023
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aidan Cully, St. Augustine, FL (US);

Earl Campbell Ruby, III, Walnut Creek, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 9/461 (2013.01); G06F 9/48 (2013.01); G06F 9/4806 (2013.01); G06F 9/4831 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/5022 (2013.01); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pre-emptive scheduling of workloads enables improved sharing of resources of a cluster of hosts. The steps of this pre-emptive scheduling method include: adjusting priority of active workloads that are each running on one of the nodes and idle workloads that have been suspended; determining that a priority of a first workload, which is one of the idle workloads, exceeds a priority of a second workload, which is one of the active workloads and is executing on a first node of the cluster of nodes; and suspending the second workload and resuming the first workload to run on the first node.


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