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Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'96)
An Experimental Investigation of the Potential of BLF-driven Scheduling of Real-time Threads
Montreal, CANADA
October 21-October 25
ISBN: 0-8186-7614-0
Resource allocation in complex real-time computer systems (RTCSs) cannot be adequately handled by straightforward extensions of the CPU and peripheral device scheduling techniques used in non-RTCSs. Rather, all the resources including CPUs, peripheral devices, communication channels, etc. should be handled in an integrated manner. As an idealistic framework we laid out a globally optimal resource allocation methodology based on the benefit loss function (BLF), which includes both static resource allocation and design of dynamic resource allocation algorithms. As a small experimental part of this research we also designed and implemented a BLF-driven thread scheduler (CPU scheduler) on Solaris 2.3. This experiment showed that existing processor scheduling approaches were not competitive against a quickly developed BLF-driven scheduling approach with respect to minimizing the total benefit loss. Therefore, the BLF-driven resource allocation approach opens doors for many new worthwhile research efforts.
Index Terms:
resource allocation; BLF-driven scheduling; real-time threads; resource allocation; complex real-time computer systems; CPUs; peripheral devices; communication channels; benefit loss function; BLF-driven thread scheduler; Solaris 2.3
Citation:
K. Kim, Y. Kim, "An Experimental Investigation of the Potential of BLF-driven Scheduling of Real-time Threads," iceccs, pp.60, Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'96), 1996
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