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In simple words, group scheduling is a feature that allows us to schedule a set of tasks as if a single task. For example, if you create a group with two tasks on the group, then this group is just like one normal task, from the kernel perspective. After a group is scheduled, the scheduler will pick a task from this group and it will be scheduled inside the group. So, such mechanism allows us to build hierarcies and manage their resources. Although a minimal unit of scheduling is a process, the Linux kernel scheduler does not use `task_struct` structure under the hood. There is special `sched_entity` strcture that is used by the Linux kernel scheduler as scheduling unit.
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