The recent changes made in the Linux kernel aim at achieving better energy efficiency through a tighter integration between the CPU scheduler and the frequency-scaling subsystem. However, in the current implementation, the frequency scaling mechanism is used only when there are no real-time tasks in execution. This paper shows how the deadline scheduler and the cpufreq subsystem can be extended to relax this constraint and implement an energy-aware real-time scheduling algorithm. In particular, we describe the design issues encountered when implementing the GRUB-PA algorithm on a real operating system like Linux. A set of experimental results on a multi-core ARM platform validate the effectiveness of the proposed implementation.

Energy-aware real-time scheduling in the linux kernel

Abeni, Luca;
2018-01-01

Abstract

The recent changes made in the Linux kernel aim at achieving better energy efficiency through a tighter integration between the CPU scheduler and the frequency-scaling subsystem. However, in the current implementation, the frequency scaling mechanism is used only when there are no real-time tasks in execution. This paper shows how the deadline scheduler and the cpufreq subsystem can be extended to relax this constraint and implement an energy-aware real-time scheduling algorithm. In particular, we describe the design issues encountered when implementing the GRUB-PA algorithm on a real operating system like Linux. A set of experimental results on a multi-core ARM platform validate the effectiveness of the proposed implementation.
2018
9781450351911
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