The multicore revolution is having limited impact in safety-critical application domains. A key reason is the "one-out-of-m" problem: when validating real-time constraints on an m-core platform, excessive analysis pessimism can effectively negate the processing capacity of the additional m − 1 cores so that only "one core's worth" of capacity is available. Two approaches have been investigated previously to address this problem: mixed-criticality allocation techniques, which provision less-critical software components less pessimistically, and hardware-management techniques, which make the underlying platform itself more predictable. A better way forward may be to combine both approaches, but to show this, fundamentally new criticality-cognizant hardwaremanagement tradeoffs must be explored. Such tradeoffs are investigated herein in the context of a large-scale, overheadaware schedulability study. This study was guided by extensive trace data obtained by executing benchmark tasks on a new variant of the MC 2 framework that supports configurable criticality-based hardware management. This study shows that the two approaches mentioned above can be much more effective when applied together instead of alone.978-1-4673-8641-8/16/$31.00
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