High Throughput Disk Scheduling with Fair Bandwidth Distribution

Valente, Paolo; Checconi, Fabio

doi:10.1109/tc.2010.105

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“…The Budget Fair Queuing (BFQ [52]) algorithm is a timestampbased proportional-share disk scheduler designed to provide strong guarantees on disk bandwidth distribution even in presence of synchronous workloads. Bandwidth distribution guarantees can be turned into soft timeliness guarantees, based on the mere knowledge of the aggregate throughput in the context of some workload scenario.…”

Section: Disk Bandwidth Managementmentioning

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“…The interested reader can find an overview of traditional elevator algorithms in [49], while BFQ is detailed in [52].…”

Section: Disk Bandwidth Managementmentioning

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“…The BFQ Resource Allocator (FRA) calculates the actual BFQ weight φ i of a request associated to a contract by a bind operation, according to the following formula, derived from equations 1 above and 1 in [52]:…”

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Modular software architecture for flexible reservation mechanisms on heterogeneous resources

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Faggioli

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Journal of Systems Architecture

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Management, allocation and scheduling of heterogeneous resources for complex distributed real-time applications is a challenging problem. Timing constraints of applications may be fulfilled by a proper use of real-time scheduling policies, admission control and enforcement of timing constraints. However, it is not easy to design basic infrastructure services that allow for an easy access to the allocation of multiple heterogeneous resources in a distributed environment.In this paper, we present a middleware for providing distributed soft real-time applications with a uniform API for reserving heterogeneous resources with real-time scheduling capabilities in a distributed environment. The architecture relies on standard POSIX OS facilities, such as time management and standard TCP/IP networking services, and it is designed around CORBA, in order to facilitate modularity, flexibility and portability of the applications using it. However, real-time scheduling is supported by proper extensions at the kernel-level, plugged within the framework by means of dedicated resource managers. Our current implementation on Linux supports reservation of CPU, disk and network bandwidth. However, additional resource managers supporting alternative real-time schedulers for these resources, as well as additional types of resources, may be easily added.We present experimental results gathered on both synthetic applications and a real multimedia video streaming case study, showing advantages deriving from the use of the proposed middleware. Finally, overhead figures are reported, showing sustainability of the approach for a wide class of complex, distributed, soft real-time applications.

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“…The interested reader can find an overview of traditional elevator algorithms in [49], while BFQ is detailed in [52].…”

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“…The accessing will be done based on the queue data structure. Preemption process is activated inside the system in order to maintain the CFQ [1] concept, each request will get a fair allotment. The problem present in CFQ is that the arrival of a synchronous request may be arbitrarily delayed by a scheduler by just delaying the dispatching of the preceding request.…”

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“…Only because of higher time stamp the request have to wait in the request queue for long time period. Instead of setting the time slot a new concept of bandwidth is introduced in the BFQ [1,2]. But here also the allotment of slot it kept as static it means once the budget is fixed it will remain the same for the entire operation.…”

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Software optimization technique for the reduction page fault to increase the processor performance

Abraham¹,

Mathew²

2017

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Abstract-This work is aimed on how to increase the processor performance without adding any extra hardware. As technology grows new hardware are introduced and that replaces the old one. Which actually leads to the E-waste generation, one of big environmental problem. In the entire work no extra hardware is introduced inorder to increase the system performance. Processor performance can measured in terms of how much time the processor is spending to perform useful work. This is accomplished with the various stages of operations. The disk scheduling is done with MBFQV2 instead of CFQ. Page replacement method which is used for loading the new requested page to the main memory from virtual or loading to cache from main memory is replaced with the LRU_LFU scheduling. Along with the above two steps for handling the branch instruction a new method called CaMMEBH introduced. The increase in the processor performance is measured in terms of page fault. Even if there is some change in the various time parameters which are not notable. The main reason behind this is execution will take place only in sequentially. None of the compiler will generate the parallel execution code. By keeping the mentioned thing in mind here some modification are done on the operating system design itself..

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Deadline scheduling in the Linux kernel

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During the last decade, there has been a considerable interest in using Linux in real-time systems, especially for industrial control. The simple and elegant design of Linux guarantees reliability and very good performance, while its open-source license allows to modify and change the source code according to the user needs. However, Linux has been designed to be a general-purpose operating system. Therefore, it presents some issues like unpredictable latencies and limited support for real-time scheduling. In this paper, we present our experience in the design and implementation of the real-time scheduler that has been recently included in the Linux kernel. The scheduler is based on the Resource Reservation paradigm, which allows to enforce temporal isolation between the running tasks. We describe the genesis of the project, the challenges we have encountered, the implementation details and the API offered to the programmers. Then, we show the experimental results measured on a real hardware.has concerned the optimization of the average throughput (i.e. the amount of 'useful work' performed by the system in the unit of time) instead of meeting the timing constraints of each running application. As a result, the standard Linux kernel does not provide good real-time performance (i.e. low kernel latencies) or other features needed for supporting real-time applications (for example, advanced scheduling / resource management algorithms).In this paper, we describe a real-time scheduler for the CPU that we have recently included in Linux. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present the previous work about real-time on Linux. In Section 3, we describe the scheduling algorithm, the implementation details as well as the API offered to the programmer. Then, in Section 4, we provide some experimental results on a real hardware. Finally, in Section 5, we state our conclusions and we provide information about the future work. RELATED WORKIn the last decade, several (sometimes orthogonal) mechanisms have been proposed to add real-time capabilities to the Linux kernel. These mechanisms can be grouped in the following classes [1].Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs). The first technique consists on reducing the kernel latency through a small abstraction layer (also called hypervisor), which virtualizes the hardware exposed to the Linux kernel [2]. This layer takes full control of the hardware resources (mainly, interrupts and system timers) and directly handles the real-time tasks at a higher priority than Linux. The Linux kernel is thus scheduled by the HAL as a low-priority task. The real-time applications cannot use functionalities provided by the Linux kernel, unless by temporarily loosing their real-time guarantees.This approach, originally introduced by Finite State Machine Labs with real-time Linux (RTLinux) [3], then acquired by Wind River [4], is now provided by two community-driven projects. The Real-Time Application Interface (RTAI) project [5], started in 1997, has developed the Adeos kernel [6] as a rep...

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High Throughput Disk Scheduling with Fair Bandwidth Distribution

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Modular software architecture for flexible reservation mechanisms on heterogeneous resources

Modular software architecture for flexible reservation mechanisms on heterogeneous resources

Software optimization technique for the reduction page fault to increase the processor performance

Deadline scheduling in the Linux kernel

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