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An Engineering Approach to Synchronization Based on Overrun for Compositional Real-Time Systems

Authors:

Ugur Keskin , Martijn van den Heuvel , Reinder J. Bril, Johan Lukkien , Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte

Research group:

Complex Real-Time Embedded Systems

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

6th IEEE International SIES

Abstract

Hierarchical scheduling frameworks (HSFs) provide means for composing complex real-time systems from welldefined independently developed and analyzed subsystems. To support shared logical resources requiring mutual exclusive access in two-level HSFs, overrun without payback has been proposed as a mechanism to prevent budget depletion during resource access arbitrated by the stack resource policy (SRP). In this paper, we revisit the global schedulability analysis of synchronization protocols based on SRP and overrun without payback for fixed-priority scheduled HSFs. We derive a new global schedulability analysis based on the observation that the overrun budget is merely meant to prevent budget depletion during global resource access. The deadline of a subsystem therefore only needs to hold for its normal budget rather than the sum of the normal and overrun budget. Our novel analysis is considerably simpler than an earlier, initially improved analysis, which improved both the original local and global schedulability analyses. We evaluate the new analysis based on an extensive simulation study and compare the results with the existing analysis. Our simplified analysis does not significantly affect schedulability compared to the initially improved analysis. It is therefore proposed as a preferable engineering approach to synchronization protocols for compositional real-time systems. We accordingly present the implementation of our improvement in an OSEK-compliant real-time operating system to sketch its applicability in today’s industrial automotive standards. Both implementation and run-time overheads are discussed providing measured results.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Keskin2095,
author = {Ugur Keskin and Martijn van den Heuvel and Reinder J. Bril and Johan Lukkien and Moris Behnam and Thomas Nolte},
title = {An Engineering Approach to Synchronization Based on Overrun for Compositional Real-Time Systems},
month = {June},
year = {2011},
booktitle = {6th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES11)},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/2095-}
}