Presentation: Opening the Box: Diagnosing Operating-System Task-Scheduler Behavior on Highly Multicore Machines

Julia Lawall discusses methods for diagnosing operating system task scheduler behavior on highly multicore machines, crucial for performance analysis. She explains the challenges of understanding kernel-level scheduling decisions and shares custom-built tooling for visualizing and analyzing scheduler traces to identify and resolve performance regressions. Gain deep insights into OS behavior. By Julia Lawall