Mixed-criticality Scheduling with Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Regulation

Mixed-criticality Scheduling with Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Regulation

Awan, M.A.
Souto, P.
Bletsas, K.
Akesson, B.
Tovar, E.

2018

Mixed-criticality multicore system design must often guarantee both safety and high performance. Memory bandwidth regulation among different cores can be a useful tool for guaranteeing safety, as it mitigates the interference when accessing main memory. The use of mode changes and system models like Vestal’s can help provide both safety, for critical functions, and scheduling performance, by efficiently utilising the platform. This work therefore combines per-core memory access regulation with the well-established Vestal model and improves on the state-of-the-art in two respects: 1) We allow the memory access budgets of the cores to be dynamically adjusted, when the system undergoes a mode change, reflecting the different needs in each mode, for better schedulability. 2) We devise memory-regulation-aware and stall-aware schedulability analysis for such systems, based on AMC-max. By comparison, the state-of-theart offered no option of dynamic adjustment of core budgets, and only offered regulation-aware schedulability analysis based on AMC-rtb, which is inherently more pessimistic. Finally, 3) we consider different task assignment and bandwidth allocation heuristics, to assess the improvement from the dynamic memory budgets and new analysis. Our results show improvements in schedulability ratio of up to 9.1% over the state-of-the-art.

Industrial Innovation
Mixed-criticality
Dynamic memory bandwidth

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