Integrating Cache-Related Preemption Delay into GEDF Analysis for Multiprocessor Scheduling with On-chip Cache

Most existing multiprocessor schedulability analysis assumes zero cost for preemptions and migrations. In order for those analysis to be correct, execution time estimations are often inflated by a certain (pessimistic) factor, leading to severe waste of computing resource. In this paper, a novel Global Earliest Deadline First (GEDF) schedulability test is proposed, where Cache-Related Preemption Delay (CRPD) is separately modeled and integrated. Specifically, multiple analyses for estimating CRPD bounds are conducted based on the refined estimation of the maximal number of preemptions, leading to tighter G-EDF schedulability tests. The experimental study is conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed methods.

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