Round Robin Scheduling: The 80% Time Quantum Heuristic

Round Robin CPU Scheduling

How do modern kernels balance high throughput with instant interactive UI responsiveness?

⚡ Context Switching Overhead

Every preemptive switch requires:

1. Saving CPU registers into the PCB.
2. Reloading kernel register state.
3. Invaliding TLB caches on process boundary switch.

If the slice is too narrow, overhead dominates execution time.

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