Aggressive Slack Reclamation for Soft Real-Time Task Scheduling
Yong‐Seok Kim · Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea · 2006
In scheduling of real-time tasks, the required hardware performance for a given set of tasks is determined based on the worst case execution time. For soft real-time tasks as multimedia applications, a lower performance hardware can service the tasks. Since the execution time of a task can vary in time, we can reclaim the slacks of early completed tasks for those of longer than average execution times. Then, the average ratio of deadline-miss can be lowered. This paper presents an algorithm, Aggressive Slack Reclamation (ASR), that tasks share slacks aggressively. A simulation result shows that ASR enhances the deadline-miss ratio and number of context switches than previous results.