[Haifux] Fwd: [ceClub] MONDAY 19/5: Bjorn Brandenburg @ CS337 - A Look at Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling in Linux: Generality, Feasibility, and Scalability

[Orr Dunkelman]

The following lecture might be of interest ...

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Subject: [ceClub] MONDAY 19/5: Bjorn Brandenburg @ CS337 - A Look at
Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling in Linux: Generality, Feasibility, and
Scalability


 ​Speaker: ​

​Bjorn Brandenburg

Title: ​

​A Look at Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling in Linux: Generality,
Feasibility, and Scalability

Affil.:​

​ Max Plank Institute of Software Systems
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​Time: ​

​Monday 19/5/14 11:30
​Location: CS, Taub 337

Abstract:

Given the popularity of Linux and the increasing adoption of embedded
multicore platforms, Linux (and Linux-like RTOSs such as LynxOS and QNX)
are increasingly used to host real-time workloads on multiprocessors. This
naturally exposes new limitations, both in the actual implementation and in
the supporting analytical foundations, and has thus been a driving force
for a number of recent advances in multiprocessor real-time scheduling.

In this talk, I'm going to present two such results: first, I'm going to
discuss how Linux's notion of processor affinities turned out to be
strictly more general than many of the models typically studied in the
real-time literature. And second, I'll discuss the (lack of) scalability of
the Linux scheduler on large multicore platforms in terms of average- and
worst-case overheads, and present an alternative, much more scalable design
based on message passing.

Bio:

Bjorn Brandenburg is a tenure-track research group leader at the Max Planck
Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He
joined MPI-SWS in 2011 after obtaining his PhD from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked with Jim Anderson. His research is
focused on operating systems for predictable multiprocessor real-time
systems and spans from the analytical foundations on the one hand to
practical systems and implementation issues on the other hand, with a
special focus on real-time locking and scheduling. He is the lead developer
and maintainer of LITMUS RT (http://www.litmus-rt.org), a real-time
extension of the Linux kernel that has been in development since 2006.

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Orr Dunkelman,
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