Pfair Scheduling of Fixed and Migrating Periodic Tasks on Multiple Resources

  • Authors:
  • Mark Moir;Srikanth Ramamurthy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • RTSS '99 Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper concerns the problem of scheduling sets of preemptable, periodic tasks on multiple resources. We consider a task model that allows arbitrary mixes of fixed and migratable tasks, and prove the existence of an optimal pfair scheduler in this model. Fixed tasks must always be scheduled on a given resource, while migratable tasks can be scheduled on different resources at different times. A pfair scheduler produces a periodic schedule in which the times each task is allocated a processor are approximately evenly spread throughout its period. This work extends work of Baruah et al, who proved a similar result for systems in which all tasks are migratable.