Dynamic Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks, by Assignment

  • Authors:
  • Babak Hamidzadeh;Yacine Atif

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Concurrency
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Sequencing and assignment are two important issues we need to address when scheduling real-time tasks on a multiprocessor architecture. Different problem represen-tations can schedule such tasks, each emphasizing either a sequencing or assignment task. A sequence-oriented representation satisfies problem constraints by emphasizing the search for an appropriate tasks order, while an as-signment- oriented representation emphasizes the search for an appropriate assignment of tasks. The authors introduce the RT-SADS algorithm, which uses an assignment-oriented representation to dynamically schedule tasks on the processors of a NUMA architecture. The proposed technique automatically controls and allocates the scheduling time to minimize the scheduling overhead and deadline violation of real-time tasks. The authors compare RT-SADS' performance with another dynamic algorithm that uses a sequence-oriented repre-sentation. The results show interesting performance trade-offs among the candidate algorithms.