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Automatic Task Splitting for Uniprocessor Systems Scheduled with Non-Preemptive EDF | Chapter 03 | Theory and Applications of Mathematical Science Vol. 1

Although preemptive scheduling dominates non-preemptive scheduling from a schedulability perspective, the latter will often be chosen by developers of real-time systems with resource constraints due to the inherently lower system overheads, easier code implementation and timing analysis. This paper is concerned with the uniprocessor scheduling of periodic and sporadic tasks with arbitrary relative deadlines in real-time systems using the non-preemptive version of the Earliest Deadline First (npEDF) algorithm. Although npEDF is known to be optimal among the non-preemptive work-conserving schedulers, it can still be restrictive in the sense that there exists uniprocessor-feasible task sets (with arbitrarily low CPU utilization) that are not schedulable with npEDF. For such task sets, system developers are forced to either consider the use of an alternate scheduling strategy or refactor the task software in some beneficial way. One such beneficial way is to apply a concept known as ‘task splitting’. However to date, little guidance has been available to assist developers with the latter process, and it is often performed on an ad-hoc basis. This paper will propose the application of a fast and efficient task splitting technique to assist developers with this software refactoring process, which can thus be used to maximize the achievable CPU utilization whilst retaining the benefits of non-preemption. Examples and experimental results are given to illustrate the performance of the algorithm. For random but representative task sets, the results also indicate that in the average case only a relatively small number of tasks require the application of task splitting to become schedulable under npEDF.

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Michael Short
School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.

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