Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'05) Volume 1
Exploiting Dynamic Workload Variation in Low Energy Preemptive Task Scheduling
Munich, Germany
March 07-March 11
ISBN: 0-7695-2288-2
A novel energy reduction strategy to maximally exploit the dynamic workload variation is proposed for the offline voltage scheduling of preemptive systems. The idea is to construct a fully-preemptive schedule that leads to minimum energy consumption when the tasks take on approximately the average execution cycles yet still guarantees no deadline violation during the worst-case scenario. End-time for each sub-instance of the tasks obtained from the schedule is used for the on-line dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) of the tasks. For the tasks that normally require a small number of cycles but occasionally a large number of cycles to complete, such a schedule provides more opportunities for slack utilization and hence results in larger energy saving. The concept is realized by formulating the problem as a Non-Linear Programming (NLP) optimization problem. Experimental results show that, by using the proposed scheme, the total energy consumption at runtime is reduced by as high as 60% for randomly generated task sets when comparing with the static scheduling approach only using worst case workload.
Citation:
Lap-Fai Leung, Chi-Ying Tsui, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, "Exploiting Dynamic Workload Variation in Low Energy Preemptive Task Scheduling," date, vol. 1, pp.634-639, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'05) Volume 1, 2005