Which of the following CPU scheduling algorithms is/are supported by LINUX operating system?

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  1. Non-preemptive priority scheduling
  2. Preemptive priority scheduling and time sharing CPU scheduling
  3. Time sharing scheduling only
  4. Priority scheduling only

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Option 2 : Preemptive priority scheduling and time sharing CPU scheduling
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Linux operating system supports both preemptive priority scheduling and time sharing CPU scheduling.

Linux scheduler is a priority preemptive scheduler with two priority ranges – Real time from 0 to 99 and a nice range from 100 to 140.

Explanation:

Preemptive priority scheduling: It maintains two array: active array and expired array.  Schedule the processes based on their static and dynamic priorities.

1)  It finds the highest priority queue with a runnable process and find the first process on that queue. Calculate its time quantum and then run. After time quantum, it put that process on expire array list and repeat the process again.

2) When priority level of active queue is empty, it looks for next highest queue, after running all active queues, it swaps active and expired queues.

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