Ticket Mechanisms
Explore how ticket mechanisms such as currency conversion, ticket transfer, and ticket inflation work within lottery scheduling. Learn how these techniques help allocate CPU time fairly and efficiently among processes in virtualization environments.
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Ticket currency
Lottery scheduling also provides a number of mechanisms to manipulate tickets in different and sometimes useful ways. One way is with the concept of ticket currency. Currency allows a user with a set of tickets to allocate tickets among their own jobs in whatever currency they would like; the system then automatically converts said currency into the correct global value.
For example, assume users A and B have each been given 100 tickets. User A is running two jobs, A1 and A2, and gives them each 500 ...