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HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Scheduler classes and real-time hazards

Lesson 21 of 96Phase 03: Linux determinism
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Compare normal and real-time scheduling policies
  2. Understand priority inversion and starvation
  3. Apply real-time privileges with bounded risk

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Observe scheduling latency under controlled load without changing host-wide defaults.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A scheduler-policy matrix with safety constraints and measured jitter.

Prerequisite
EP 20

Phase 03

Linux determinism

Full curriculum
21Scheduler classes and real-time hazards22Affinity, topology, SMT, and migration23CPU isolation as a system configuration24Interrupts, NAPI, softirqs, and NIC queues25Memory locking and prefaulting26Power management, turbo, C-states, and thermal behavior27Finding OS noise with rtla, ftrace, and perf28System calls and context switches are different things29Shared memory IPC with explicit ownership30cgroup v2, cpusets, memory nodes, and least privilege31Asynchronous logging: page cache, direct I/O, and io_uring32Phase gate: reproducible low-jitter host profile