实时调度EDZL算法的可调度性判定

针对多处理器实时调度中的EDZL调度算法,利用多任务之间的相互干涉关系,找出与多处理器之间的时间约束条件,提出了一种可调度性判定的方法,并对给出的判定方法进行了证明。给出了一种判定多处理器实时EDZL可调度性的算法,这种方法可在设计多处理器实时系统时使用。     

多处理器系统实时调度的可预测性

在多处理器实时系统中,由于调度的不规则性,系统的可预测性判定问题尤为重要。针对多处理器系统中实时任务调度的可预测性问题,给出了不可预测的实时任务集反例,证明了一种可预测的实时任务集合。对于多处理器实时系统中常用的最早截止期零松弛调度算法(earliest deadline zero laxity,EDZL)的可预测性,利用EDZL算法的基本性质,用一种简捷的方法证明了EDZL算法是可预测的。通过仿真系统验证了证明的正确性,该方法可用于多处理器及分布式实时系统的设计和验证。     

基于负载计算的多处理器全局EDF判定方法

在多处理器实时调度过程中,干涉上界的取值对于可调度性判定的性能具有较大影响。为此,针对实时系统的最早截止期优先调度算法,引入任务松弛的有关概念,提出一种基于负载计算的可调度性判定方法。通过减小问题区间内带入作业的工作负载取值,增加任务集通过可调度性判定的可能。实验结果表明,随着处理器数量的增加,该判定方法较传统方法有5%~10%的性能提升。     

多处理器固定优先级算法的可调度性分析

针对多处理器实时调度中的固定优先级(FP)调度算法,提出了一种改进的可调度性判定方法。引入Baruah的最早截止期优先(EDF)窗口分析框架,将高优先级任务带入作业的最大数量限定为m-1(m为处理器个数),进而对任务的干涉上界进行重新界定,并由此得到一个更加紧密的可调度性判定充分条件。仿真实验结果表明,该方法增加了通过判定任务集的数量,体现出更优的可调度判定性能。     

多处理器EPDFPfair算法的可调度性判定

针对多处理器实时调度中的最早伪时限优先(EPDF)Pfair算法,分析了EPDF算法在M个处理器平台上的可调度利用率约束,根据基于利用率的充分可调度性判定,提出了一种改进的可调度性判定方法。这种方法可以得到更多的可调度任务集,从而使得满足判定的强实时系统和使用tie-breaking规则困难的动态任务系统的调度有较小的开销。实验结果表明,改进的可调度性判定方法增加了判为可调度的任务集数量,具有较好的性能。     

多处理器硬实时系统的抢占阈值调度研究

在实时系统中,抢占在提高系统灵活性的同时带来额外的系统开销,特别在多处理器平台上抢占导致的作业迁移会造成相当大的性能下降,减少不必要的抢占是硬实时系统研究的重要方向.抢占阈值调度是处于抢占调度和不可抢占调度之间的一种混合调度方法,在保持调度能力的基础上限制抢占.基于截止期分析建立了多处理器硬实时系统抢占阈值调度的可调度性判定条件,针对抢占阈值调度提出一种改进的优先级分配算法OPA-MLL,并建立了抢占阈值分配(preemption threshold assignment,PTA)算法.仿真结果表明,采用OPA-MLL算法和PTA算法分别给任务集分配优先级和抢占阈值时,可调度任务集比率明显提高,同时能最大程度限制抢占次数.     

EDF调度算法可调度性分析方法的改进研究

任务集的可调度性分析是实时系统研究和应用的关键问题。针对抢占式与不可抢占式EDF(earliest deadline first)调度算法, 分别给出了实时任务集新的可调度性测试条件, 针对任务集为可调度时可以实现快速判定。通过与已有的EDF算法的可调度性判定充要条件相结合, 提出了改进的抢占式与不可抢占式EDF算法的可调度性分析方法。仿真实验表明, 相对现有EDF算法的可调度性分析方法, 所提出的方法能有效提高算法性能。     

复杂实时系统可调度性判定工具的研究与实现

针对包含多处理器、多分区结构的复杂实时系统存在的可调度性判定问题,提出一种基于仿真方法的任务集可调度性判定工具。通过设定时钟变量模拟任务调度过程,依据纯周期任务集的特性确定仿真区间,调用优化的判定算法,判定任务集的可调度性。测试结果及实例分析表明,该工具能自动、准确、快速地判定任务集的可调度性,并以甘特图的方式绘制任务调度过程,较现有工具更为高效、直观。     

嵌入式系统的细粒度多处理器实时抢占式调度算法

现有的嵌入式实时系统调度算法一般以任务级为调度单位,对此提出一种细粒度的线程级多处理器实时调度算法。采用DAG图描述实时系统的任务,并采用任务分解法将其分解为线程形式;为任务级调度采用基于干扰的可调度性分析,为线程级调度采用基于工作负载的可调度性分析;将线程的偏移、截止期与优先级作为三个调度目标,设计混合线程级调度算法。仿真实验结果表明,算法对于多线程任务的实时系统具有较好的性能。     

不可抢占式EDF调度算法的可调度性分析

现有的不可抢占式EDF调度算法的可调度性分析判定条件限定实时任务的截止期必须等于其周期,限制了它的使用范围。论文突破这一限制,提出了更具一般性的可调度性分析判定充要条件。通过对可调度性判定充要条件的分析,提出了基于不可抢占式EDF调度算法的周期性实时系统可调度性分析算法。     

Limited carry-in technique for real-time multi-core scheduling

Schedulability analysis has been widely studied to provide offline timing guarantees for a set of real-time tasks. The so-called limited carry-in technique, which can be orthogonally incorporated into many different multi-core schedulability analysis methods, was originally introduced for Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling to derive a tighter bound on the amount of interference of carry-in jobs at the expense of investigating a pseudo-polynomial number of intervals. This technique has been later adapted for Fixed-Priority (FP) scheduling to obtain the carry-in bound efficiently by examining only one interval, leading to a significant improvement in multi-core schedulability analysis. However, such a successful result has not yet been transferred to any other non-FP scheduling algorithms. Motivated by this, this paper presents a generic limited carry-in technique that is applicable to any work-conserving algorithms. Specifically, this paper derives a carry-in bound in an algorithm-independent manner and demonstrates how to apply the bound to existing non-FP schedulability analysis methods for better schedulability.     

EDZL scheduling analysis

A schedulability test is derived for the global Earliest Deadline Zero Laxity (EDZL) scheduling algorithm on a platform with multiple identical processors. The test is sufficient, but not necessary, to guarantee that a system of independent sporadic tasks with arbitrary deadlines will be successfully scheduled, with no missed deadlines, by the multiprocessor EDZL algorithm. Global EDZL is known to be at least as effective as global Earliest-Deadline-First (EDF) in scheduling task sets to meet deadlines. It is shown, by testing on large numbers of pseudo-randomly generated task sets, that the combination of EDZL and the new schedulability test is able to guarantee that far more task sets meet deadlines than the combination of EDF and known EDF schedulability tests. In the second part of the paper, an improved version of the EDZL-schedulability test is presented. This new algorithm is able to efficiently exploit information on the slack values of interfering tasks, to iteratively refine the estimation of the interference a task can be subjected to. This iterative algorithm is shown to have better performance than the initial test, in terms of schedulable task sets detected.

Demand-based schedulability analysis for real-time multi-core scheduling

In real-time systems, schedulability analysis has been widely studied to provide offline guarantees on temporal correctness, producing many analysis methods. The demand-based schedulability analysis method has a great potential for high schedulability performance and broad applicability. However, such a potential is not yet fully realized for real-time multi-core scheduling mainly due to (i) the difficulty of calculating the resource demand under dynamic priority scheduling algorithms that are favorable to multi-cores, and (ii) the lack of understanding how to combine the analysis framework with deadline-miss conditions specialized for those scheduling algorithms. Addressing those two issues, to the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first demand-based schedulability analysis for dynamic job-priority scheduling algorithms: EDZL (Earliest Deadline first until Zero-Laxity) and LLF (Least Laxity First), which are known to be effective for real-time multi-core scheduling. To this end, we first derive demand bound functions that compute the maximum possible amount of resource demand of jobs of each task while the priority of each job can change dynamically under EDZL and LLF. Then, we develop demand-based schedulability analyses for EDZL and LLF, by incorporating those new demand bound functions into the existing demand-based analysis framework. Finally, we combine the framework with additional deadline-miss conditions specialized for those two laxity-based dynamic job-priority scheduling algorithms, yielding tighter schedulability analyses. Via simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed schedulability analyses outperform the existing schedulability analyses for EDZL and LLF.     

长释放时间间隔优先的混合任务调度算法

针对混合任务实时调度的需求和MUF算法的局限性,提出了一种长释放时间间隔优先的混合任务实时调度算法LRIF,该算法除了可对周期性硬实时任务提供调度保证外,同时还可确保非周期性软实时任务的可调度率。论文还提出了LRIF调度算法的可调度性分析方法,并讨论了LRIF调度算法的实现方法。     

Laxity dynamics and LLF schedulability analysis on multiprocessor platforms

LLF (Least Laxity First) scheduling, which assigns a higher priority to a task with a smaller laxity, has been known as an optimal preemptive scheduling algorithm on a single processor platform. However, little work has been made to illuminate its characteristics upon multiprocessor platforms. In this paper, we identify the dynamics of laxity from the system??s viewpoint and translate the dynamics into LLF multiprocessor schedulability analysis. More specifically, we first characterize laxity properties under LLF scheduling, focusing on laxity dynamics associated with a deadline miss. These laxity dynamics describe a lower bound, which leads to the deadline miss, on the number of tasks of certain laxity values at certain time instants. This lower bound is significant because it represents invariants for highly dynamic system parameters (laxity values). Since the laxity of a task is dependent of the amount of interference of higher-priority tasks, we can then derive a set of conditions to check whether a given task system can go into the laxity dynamics towards a deadline miss. This way, to the author??s best knowledge, we propose the first LLF multiprocessor schedulability test based on its own laxity properties. We also develop an improved schedulability test that exploits slack values. We mathematically prove that the proposed LLF tests dominate the state-of-the-art EDZL tests. We also present simulation results to evaluate schedulability performance of both the original and improved LLF tests in a quantitative manner.     

静态实时中间件的优先级映射问题

使用截止期单调(DM)调度算法和分布式优先级冲顶资源访问控制协议(DPCP)的实时CORBA系统中,当节点的本地优先级个数不足时,必须将多个全局优先级映射成一个本地优先级.这需要:①判定映射后任务可调度性的充分必要条件;②减少时间复杂度的映射算法.为此,推导出判定条件,确定了DGPM映射算法.该算法在保证系统可调度的前提下分配任务,或者证明映射后系统不可调度.证明了DGPM算法能调度其他直序列优先级映射算法可调度的任务和GCS集合.判定条件和算法在实际项目中得到了应用.     

一种改进的RM可调度性判定算法

固定优先级任务可调度性判定是实时系统调度理论研究的核心问题之一.目前已有的各种判定方法可归结为两大类:多项式时间调度判定和确切性判定.多项式时间调度判定通常采用调度充分条件来进行,为此,许多理想条件下基于RM(rate monotonic)调度算法的CPU利用率最小上界被提了出来.确切性判定利用RM调度的充要条件,保证任何任务集均可被判定,并且判定结果是确切的.但是由于时间复杂度较差,确切性判定方法难以实现在线分析.提出了一种改进的RM可调度性判定方法(improved schedulability test algorithm,简称ISTA).首先介绍了任务调度空间这一概念,并提出了二叉树表示,然后进一步提出了相关的剪枝理论.在此基础上,研究了任务之间可调度性的相关性及其对判定任务集可调度性的影响,提出并证明了相关的定理.最后基于提出的定理,给出了一种改进的伪多项式时间可调度性判定算法,并与已有的判定方法进行了比较.仿真结果表明,该算法平均性能作为任务集内任务个数的函数具有显著提高.     

一种新的组优先级动态实时调度算法

传统动态调度算法由于对优先级个数没有限制,在实际应用中往往受制约,达不到很好的调度性能.针对此问题,考虑硬实时抢占任务调度需要,提出一种新的组优先级动态实时调度算法.研究作业执行顺序改变对系统可调度性能的影响,给出作业分组可调度性能测试.新算法将满足分组可调度测试公式的作业作为一个任务组,各任务组之间按照最小截止期优先调度,任务组内按照最短作业优先的原则执行作业.仿真结果表明,与最小截止期优先等传统调度算法相比,新算法不仅能有效降低算法所需优先级个数,还能提高任务调度的成功率,缩短平均响应时间,减少任务切换次数.