The design, implementation and initial evaluation of an advanced knowledge-based process scheduler
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We present a soft real-time CPU server for Continuous Media processing in the UNIX environment. The server is a daemon process from which applications can request and acquire soft real-time QoS (Quality of Service) Guarantees. Our server is an extension of the URsched scheduler. It provides (1) protection among real-time(RT) processes (2) fairness among RT and non-RT processes, (3) rate monotonic scheduling, (4) a fix to the UNIX security problem. We have implemented our protocol in the SUN Solaris 2.5 Operating System, and we have shown through experiments that our soft RT server provides predictable QoS for continuous media applications. We also discuss how we will fit the real-time server into our general Resource Broker Architecture in our future work.