The global limited preemptive earliest deadline first feasibility of sporadic Real-Time tasks

  • Abhilash Thekkilakattil
  • , Sanjoy Baruah
  • , Radu Dobrin
  • , Sasikumar Punnekkat

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Abstract

The feasibility of preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling has been well investigated on uniprocessor and multiprocessor platforms under both Fixed Priority Scheduling (FPS) and Earliest Deadline First (EDF) paradigms. While feasibility of limited preemptive scheduling under FPS has been addressed on both uniprocssor and multiprocessor platforms, under EDF it has been investigated only on uniprocessors, and a similar analysis for multiprocessor platforms is still missing. In this paper, we introduce global Limited Preemptive Earliest Deadline First (g-LP-EDF) scheduling, and propose the associated feasibility analysis to complete the above described feasibility analysis spectrum. Specifically, we derive a sufficient condition that guarantees g-LP-EDF feasibility of sporadic real-time tasks which directly provides a global Non-Preemptive Earliest Deadline First (g-NP-EDF) feasibility test. We then study the interplay between g-LP-EDF feasibility and processor speed, in order to quantify the sub-optimality of g-NP-EDF in terms of the minimum speed-up required to guarantee g-NP-EDF feasibility of all feasible task sets. The results presented in this paper complement our previous results on uniprocessors, and provide a unified result on the sub-optimality of non-preemptive EDF on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor platforms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages301-310
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781479957989
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 21 2014
Event26th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, ECRTS 2014 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: Jul 8 2014Jul 11 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
ISSN (Print)1068-3070

Conference

Conference26th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, ECRTS 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period07/8/1407/11/14

Keywords

  • Global Limited Preemptive EDF
  • Global Non-preemptive EDF
  • Multiprocessor Scheduling
  • Resource Augmentation

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