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twic on Sept 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scheduling in Go: Part II

2013! This idea dates back to at least 1992, in the form of scheduler activations, as described in this paper by Tom Anderson (no relation):

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mosharaf/Readings/Scheduler-Activ...

EDIT: And that Google work sounds like directed yields, an old idea which i traced back as far as 1996 before getting bored:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-96/cpu-inheritance-sc...

romed on Sept 30, 2018 [–]

I don't think anyone from google claims that threads with userspace switch-to scheduling is a novel advancement of computer science. However, it is somewhat novel to have a production-quality implementation of same in C++.

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