Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

9-1998

Subjects

Operating systems (Computers) -- Resource allocation, Adaptive computing systems, Linux

Abstract

In this paper we propose changing the decades-old practice of allocating CPU to threads based on priority to a scheme based on proportion and period. Our scheme allocates to each thread a percentage of CPU cycles over a period of time, and uses a feedback-based adaptive scheduler to assign automatically both proportion and period. Applications with known requirements, such as isochronous software devices, can bypass the adaptive scheduler by specifying their desired proportion and/or period. As a result, our scheme provides reservations to applications that need them, and the benefits of proportion and period to those that do not. Adaptive scheduling using proportion and period has several distinct benefits over either fixed or adaptive priority based schemes: finer grain control of allocation, lower variance in the amount of cycles allocated to a thread, and avoidance of accidental priority inversion and starvation, including defense against denial-of-service attacks. This paper describes our design of an adaptive controller and proportion-period scheduler, its implementation in Linux, and presents experimental validation of our approach.

Description

Oregon Graduate Institute CSE Technical Report 98-014, September 1998.

Subsequently published in the Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, New Orleans, Louisiana, February, 1999 (OSDI. Vol. 99, pp. 145-158).

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10463

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