- Linux scheduler favors I/O bound processes. It uses dynamic priorities to schedule processes. So a process that has not got CPU for a long time, would get its priority increased and vice verse.
- Processes are moved to different queues and al processes on ready queue are assigned an 'epoch'. The epoch is relevant for processes in ready queue only.
- Now each process is assigned a quantum which is the CPU time allotted to a process. If a process is blocked, it does not use its quantum and unused quantum is carry forward to next epoch. An epoch completes as soon as all processes in ready queue complete their quantum.
- Dynamic priority("goodness") of a process is calculated by base priority and quantum. Hence a I/O bound process which is blocked for a long time, gets its priority improved every time it saves its quantum while it was blocked.
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