Co-Scheduling Variable Execution Time Requirement Real-time Tasks and Non-Real-Time Tasks


A. Singh, K. Jeffay
Proceedings of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems,
Pisa, Italy, July 2007
pages 191-200.

ABSTRACT: By scheduling the non real-time tasks earlier while still meeting deadlines for the real-time tasks, the overall system performance can be improved. In particular, we believe that the variability in the execution time requirements of realtime tasks can be effectively leveraged to reduce response times of non real-time tasks. We propose a novel processor sharing algorithm where the processor share of RT jobs increases with their progress based on the empirical probability distribution of execution times of real-time tasks, to adaptively schedule variable requirement real-time to maximize the minimum expected service rate to non real-time tasks at any instant.


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