Implementation and evaluation of a control-theoretical scheduler

Recent papers have demonstrated that process schedulers can be designed entirely as feedback controllers—quite novel an approach with respect of the way the control theory is typically applied to computing systems. This work takes a more technological attitude with respect to the methodological ones just quoted. The real- isation of a control-theoretical process scheduler on a kernel written for a microcon- troller is briefly described, and a small sample is presented of the tests performed to assess its correct operation, and to evidence the advantages that the underlying ap- proach yields over classical ones.