круговой, циклический
noun Etymology: from the name Robin 1. a. a written petition, memorial, or protest to which the signatures are affixed in a circle so as not to indicate who signed first b. a statement signed by several persons c. something (as a letter) sent in turn to the members of a group each of whom signs and forwards it sometimes after adding comment 2. round table 2 3. a tournament in which every contestant meets every other contestant in turn 4. series, round
A scheduling algorithm in which processes are activated in a fixed cyclic order. Those which cannot proceed because they are waiting for some event (e.g. termination of a child process or an input/output operation) simply return control to the scheduler. The virtue of round-robin scheduling is its simplicity - only the processes themselves need to know what they are waiting for or how to tell if it has happened. However, if a process goes back to sleep just before the event for which it is waiting occurs then the event will not get handled until all the other processes have been activated. Compare priority scheduling.