Task Scheduling Based on Component Margins

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• maintaining, in a margin table of a system, margin information for a plurality of components of the system, the margin information describing, for each of the plurality of components, a margin for operating without errors;
• receiving, by a scheduler, a request to perform one or more tasks;
• selecting, by the scheduler, a component of the plurality of components based on the margin information of the one or more tasks;
• and
• scheduling, by the scheduler, performance of the one or more tasks using the selected component.

A computing device comprising:

• a plurality of processing cores, the plurality of processing cores including at least one overclocked processing core;
• a margin table that maintains margin information for each of the plurality of processing cores, the margin information describing, for each of the plurality of processing cores, a margin for operating without errors;
• and
• a scheduler configured to schedule a task using one of the plurality of processing cores based on the margin information maintained in the margin table.