Scheduling Parallel Real-Time Tasks on Multi-core Processors

  • Authors:
  • Karthik Lakshmanan;Shinpei Kato;Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RTSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Massively multi-core processors are rapidly gaining market share with major chip vendors offering an ever increasing number of cores per processor. From a programming perspective, the sequential programming model does not scale very well for such multi-core systems. Parallel programming models such as OpenMP present promising solutions for more effectively using multiple processor cores. In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling periodic real-time tasks on multiprocessors under the fork join structure used in OpenMP. We illustrate the theoretical best-case and worst-case periodic fork-join task sets from a processor utilization perspective. Based on our observations of these task sets, we provide a partitioned preemptive fixed-priority scheduling algorithm for periodic fork-join tasks. The proposed multiprocessor scheduling algorithm is shown to have a resource augmentation bound of 3.42, which implies that any task set that is feasible on m unit speed processors can be scheduled by the proposed algorithm on m processors that are 3:42 times faster.