IEEE Access (Jan 2023)

Optimized Scheduling of Periodic Hard Real-Time Multicore Systems

  • Jose Maria Aceituno,
  • Ana Guasque,
  • Patricia Balbastre,
  • Francisco Blanes,
  • Luigi Pomante

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3261130
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11
pp. 30027 – 30039

Abstract

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Multicore systems were developed to provide a substantial performance increase over monocore systems. But shared hardware resources are a problem as they add unpredictable delays that affect the schedulability of multicore hard real-time systems. In recent years much effort has been put into modelling interference and proposing scheduling techniques to mitigate its negative effect. Using one of these models, we propose a scheduling technique, based on Integer Linear Programming (ILP) that, in combination with a task to core allocator, not only achieves a feasible schedule but also reduces the interference produced by shared hardware resources in the context of hard real-time multicore systems. The evaluation shows how interference is reduced ( $\approx 83.47$ %) and schedulability is increased ( $\approx 12.25$ %) compared to traditional heuristics.

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