Scheduling algorithm in real time system

Scheduling Algorithms for
End-to-End Periodic Tasks
Scheduling in Real Time System
Real-time systems are systems that carry real-time tasks.
These tasks need to be performed immediately with a
certain degree of urgency. In particular, these tasks are
related to control of certain events (or) reacting to them.
Real-time tasks can be classified as hard real-time tasks and
soft real-time tasks.
A hard real-time task must be performed at a specified time
which could otherwise lead to huge losses. In soft real-time
tasks, a specified deadline can be missed. This is because the
task can be rescheduled (or) can be completed after the
specified time

Scheduling Algorithms for End-to-End
Periodic Tasks
In real-time systems, the scheduler is considered as the
most important component which is typically a short-
term task scheduler. The main focus of this scheduler is
to reduce the response time associated with each of the
associated processes instead of handling the deadline.
If a preemptive scheduler is used, the real-time task
needs to wait until its corresponding tasks time slice
completes. In the case of a non-preemptive scheduler,
even if the highest priority is allocated to the task, it
needs to wait until the completion of the current task.
This task can be slow (or) of the lower priority and can
lead to a longer wait.

Scheduling Algorithms for End-to-End
Periodic Tasks
A better approach is designed by combining both preemptive and non-
preemptive scheduling. This can be done by introducing time-based
interrupts in priority based systems which means the currently running
process is interrupted on a time-based interval and if a higher priority
process is present in a ready queue, it is executed by preempting the
current process
Types
• Simple priority-based
• Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA)
• Earliest Deadline First (EDF)

Foreground-Background Scheduler
A foreground-background scheduler is possibly the
simplest priority-driven preemptive scheduler. In
foreground-background scheduling, the real-time tasks
in an application are run as foreground tasks. The
sporadic, a periodic, and non-real-time tasks are run as
background tasks. Among the foreground tasks, at every
scheduling point the highest priority task is taken up for
scheduling. A background task can run when none of the
foreground tasks is ready. In other words, the
background tasks run at the lowest priority.
Let us assume that in a certain real-time system, there
are n foreground tasks which are denoted as: T1,T2,...,Tn.

Foreground-Background Scheduler
As already mentioned, the foreground tasks are all periodic.
Let TB be the only background task. Let eB be the processing
time requirement of TB. In this case, the completion time (ctB)
for the background task is given by: ct BB = eBB / (1−i=1∑ n ei
/ pi) … (3.1/2.7) This expression is easy to interpret. When any
foreground task is executing, the background task waits. The
average CPU utilization due to the foreground task Ti is ei/pi,
since ei amount of processing time is required over every pi
period. It follows that all foreground tasks together would
result in CPU utilization of i=1∑ n ei / pi.
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Earliest Deadline First (EDF) Scheduling
In Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling, at every scheduling point
the task having the shortest deadline is taken up for scheduling. This
basic principles of this algorithm is very intuitive and simple to
understand. The schedulability test for EDF is also simple. A task set is
schedulable under EDF, if and only if it satisfies the condition that the
total processor utilization due to the task set is less than 1. For a set of
periodic real-time tasks {T1, T2, …, Tn}, EDF schedulability criterion can
be expressed as:
i=1∑ n ei / pi = i=1∑ n ui ≤ 1 … (3.2/2.8)
where ui is average utilization due to the task Ti and n is the total
number of tasks in the task set.

Implementation of EDF
A naive implementation of EDF would be to maintain all tasks that are ready
for execution in a queue. Any freshly arriving task would be inserted at the
end of the queue. Every node in the queue would contain the absolute
deadline of the task. At every preemption point, the entire queue would be
scanned from the beginning to determine the task having the shortest
deadline. However, this implementation would be very inefficient. Let us
analyze the complexity of this scheme. Each task insertion will be achieved in
O(1) or constant time, but task selection (to run next) and its deletion would
require O(n) time, where n is the number of tasks in the queue. A more
efficient implementation of EDF would be as follows. EDF can be
implemented by maintaining all ready tasks in a sorted priority queue. A
sorted priority queue can efficiently be implemented by using a heap data
structure. In the priority queue, the tasks are always kept sorted according to
the proximity of their deadline. When a task arrives, a record for it can be
inserted into the heap in O(log2 n) time where n is the total number of tasks
in the priority queue.

Implementation of EDF
At every scheduling point, the next task to be run can be found at the top of the heap.
When a task is taken up for scheduling, it needs to be removed from the priority queue.
This can be achieved in O(1) time. A still more efficient implementation of the EDF can be
achieved as follows under the assumption that the number of distinct deadlines that tasks
in an application can have are restricted. In this approach, whenever task arrives, its
absolute deadline is computed from its release time and its relative deadline. A separate
FIFO queue is maintained for each distinct relative deadline that tasks can have. The
scheduler inserts a newly arrived task at the end of the corresponding relative deadline
queue. Clearly, tasks in each queue are ordered according to their absolute deadlines. To
find a task with the earliest absolute deadline, the scheduler only needs to search among
the threads of all FIFO queues. If the number of priority queues maintained by the
scheduler is Q, then the order of searching would be O(1). The time to insert a task would
also be O(1).
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Shortcomings of EDF
Transient Overload Problem: Transient overload denotes the overload of a system for a very short
time. Transient overload occurs when some task takes more time to complete than what was
originally planned during the design time. A task may take longer to complete due to many reasons.
For example, it might enter an infinite loop or encounter an unusual condition and enter a rarely
used branch due to some abnormal input values. When EDF is used to schedule a set of periodic
real-time tasks, a task overshooting its completion time can cause some other task(s) to miss their
deadlines. It is usually very difficult to predict during program design which task might miss its
deadline when a transient overload occurs in the system due to a low priority task overshooting its
deadline. The only prediction that can be made is that the task (tasks) that would run immediately
after the task causing the transient overload would get delayed and might miss its (their) respective
deadline(s). However, at different times a task might be followed by different tasks in execution.
However, this lead does not help us to find which task might miss its deadline. Even the most critical
task might miss its deadline due to a very low priority task overshooting its planned completion
time. So, it should be clear that under EDF any amount of careful design will not guarantee that the
most critical task would not miss its deadline under transient overload. This is a serious drawback of
the EDF scheduling algorithm.
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Shortcomings of EDF
Resource Sharing Problem: When EDF is used to schedule a set of real-time tasks,
unacceptably high overheads might have to be incurred to support resource sharing among
the tasks without making tasks to miss their respective deadlines. We examine this issue in
some detail in the next lesson. Efficient Implementation Problem: The efficient
implementation that we discussed in Sec. 3.4.2 is often not practicable as it is difficult to
restrict the number of tasks with distinct deadlines to a reasonable number. The efficient
implementation that achieves O(1) overhead assumes that the number of relative
deadlines is restricted. This may be unacceptable in some situations. For a more flexible
EDF algorithm, we need to keep the tasks ordered in terms of their deadlines using a
priority queue. Whenever a task arrives, it is inserted into the priority queue. The
complexity of insertion of an element into a priority queue is of the order log2 n, where n
is the number of tasks to be scheduled. This represents a high runtime overhead, since
most real-time tasks are periodic with small periods and strict deadlines.
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Rate Monotonic Algorithm(RMA)
We had already pointed out that RMA is an important event-driven scheduling algorithm.
This is a static priority algorithm and is extensively used in practical applications. RMA
assigns priorities to tasks based on their rates of occurrence. The lower the occurrence rate
of a task, the lower is the priority assigned to it. A task having the highest occurrence rate
(lowest period) is accorded the highest priority. RMA has been proved to be the optimal
static priority real-time task scheduling algorithm. In RMA, the priority of a task is directly
proportional to its rate (or, inversely proportional to its period). That is, the priority of any
task Ti is computed as: priority = k / pi, where pi is the period of the task Ti and k is a
constant. Using this simple expression, plots of priority values of tasks under RMA for tasks
of different periods can be easily obtained. These plots have been shown in Fig. 30.10(a)
and Fig. 30.10(b). It can be observed from these figures that the priority of a task increases
linearly with the arrival rate of the task and inversely with its period.
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References:-
Books:-
• Real Time Systems by Jane W. S. Liu, Pearson Education Publication -https://learnengineering.in/real-time-systems-by-
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• Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification by Prof. Albert M. K. Cheng, John Wiley and Sons
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