Response Time Analysis for Tasks Scheduled under EDF within Fixed Priorities
RTSS '03 Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium
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Audio and video applications, process control, agile manufacturing and even defense systems are using commodity hardware and operating systems to run combinations of real-time and non-real-time tasks. We propose an architecture that will allow a general-purpose operating system to schedule conventional and real-time tasks with diverse requirements, to provide flexible load isolation between applications, users, and accounting domains, and to enforce high-level policies about the allocation of CPU time. This is accomplished by implementing a dynamic, hierarchical scheduling infrastructure. The infrastructure is integrated with a resource manager that provides a level of indirection between resource requests and the scheduling hierarchy. A scheduling infrastructure separates scheduler code from the rest of the operating system. To demonstrate the utility of our architecture, we describe its application to three existing real-time schedulers. For each of the three, we show added flexibility while retaining the original scheduling guarantees.