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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2011
Sayantan Chakravorty, Redmond, WA (US);
Colin Watson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher J. Crall, Seattle, WA (US);
Sayantan Chakravorty, Redmond, WA (US);
Colin Watson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher J. Crall, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
The preemption of running jobs by other running or queued jobs in a system that has processing resources. The system has running jobs, and queued jobs that are awaiting processing by the system. In a scheduling operation, preemptor jobs are identified, the preemptor jobs being jobs that are candidates for preempting one or more of the running jobs. The preemptor jobs include queued jobs, as well as running jobs that are capable of using more processing resource of the system. One of the other running jobs is preempted to free processing resources for the running job that was identified as a preemptor job. Accordingly, not only may queued jobs preempt running jobs, but currently running jobs may preempt other currently running jobs.