Type-Aware Federated Scheduling for Typed DAG Tasks on Heterogeneous Multicore Platforms

To utilize the performance benefits of heterogeneous multicore platforms in real-time systems, we need task models that expose the parallelism and heterogeneity of the workload, such as typed DAG tasks, as well as scheduling algorithms that effectively exploit this information. In this article, we introduce type-aware federated scheduling algorithms for sporadic typed DAG tasks with implicit deadlines running on a heterogeneous multicore platform with two different types of cores. In type-aware federated scheduling, a task can be executed in one of the three strategies: Exclusive Allocation, Semi-Exclusive Allocation, and Sequential and Share. In Exclusive Allocation, clusters of cores of both core types are exclusively allocated to tasks, while cores of only one type are exclusively allocated to tasks in Semi-Exclusive Allocation. The workload of the other type from tasks in Semi-Exclusive Allocation and the workload from tasks in Sequential and Share share the cores that are not exclusively allocated to any task. We prove that our type-aware federated scheduling algorithm has a capacity augmentation bound of 7.25. We also show that no constant capacity augmentation bound can be obtained without Semi-Exclusive Allocation. Compared to the state of the art, the type-aware federated scheduling algorithm achieves better schedulability, especially for task sets with skewed workload.

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In order to exploit the performance benefits of heterogeneous multicore platforms in real-time systems, task models that expose the parallelism and heterogeneity of the workload, as well as scheduling algorithms that effectively utilize this information, are needed. This article introduces type-aware federated scheduling algorithms for sporadic typed DAG tasks with implicit deadlines on a heterogeneous multicore platform with two types of cores. The algorithms achieve better schedulability, especially for task sets with skewed workload, compared to the state of the art.