Re: [RFC][PATCH 18/22] sched: add reclaiming logic to -deadline tasks

From: Luca Abeni
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 14:43:28 EST


On 15/11/10 19:37, James H. Anderson wrote:
[...]
If you're talking about our most recent "stochastic" paper, it is about
supporting
soft real-time task systems on a multiprocessor where resource
reservations are
used. The main result of the paper is that if you provision the
reservation for a
task slightly higher than it's average-case execution time
[...]
BTW, I think we are aligned on this.

I was a little bit surprised when Peter mentioned allocating a runtime equal to the average execution time (because of the meta-stability considerations that Tommaso also mentioned), but I fully agree that if the allocated runtime is higher than the average execution time then the queue is stable and it's possible to find a bound for the expected tardiness (or even its probability distribution... This is similar to my "probabilistic deadlines").


Luca
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