Impact of PCI-Bus Load on Applications in a PC Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Schönberg

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • RTSS '03 Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Any data exchanged between the processor and mainmemory uses the memory bus, sharing it with data exchangedbetween I/O devices and main memory. If the processorand a device try to transfer data at the same time, animpact can be seen on the processor as well as on the device.As a result, the execution time of an application on theprocessor may increase due to the memory-bus load generatedby I/O devices. In real-time environments, this impactcan result in missed deadlines and a behavior that is differentto that intended by the designer of the system.This paper gives a method for describing and quantifyingthe impact of such load on applications executed by theprocessor.