Conditions d’ordonnançabilité pour un langage dirigé par le temps

The goal of this research is to define a time-triggered language for modeling real-time systems and to provide the conditions for their schedulability under Earliest Deadline First (EDF). Time-triggered languages separate the functional part of applications from their timing definition. These languages permit to model the real-time system temporal behavior by assigning system activities to particular time instants. We propose a new time-triggered framework, Extended Timing Definition Language (E-TDL), that enhances the basic task model used in Giotto and TDL while keeping compositional and modular structure brought by the latter. An E-TDL task is characterized by: an offset, a worst case execution time, a Logical Execution Time (a time interval between task release and its termination) and a period.The schedulability analysis of the system based on this new task model should be, in particular for EDF, investigated. We develop, on the concept of the processor demand criterion, conditions for the feasibility of an E-TDL system running on a single CPU under EDF. A necessary and sufficient condition is obtained by considering the global schedules that are made up of execution traces occurring at the same time in distinct modules that are able to switch their modes at predefined instants. We estimate a maximal length of the interval on which the schedulability condition must be checked. A tool suite performing the schedulability analysis of the E-TDL systems is developed.Les travaux réalisés dans le cadre de cette thèse ont pour objectif de proposer un langage de description temporelle pour des systèmes temps-réel et d’établir les conditions de leur ordonnançabilité sous l’algorithme Earliest Deadline First (EDF). Les langages de description temporelle permettent de spécifier le comportement temporel d’une application indépendamment de son comportement fonctionnel. Le programmeur déclare dans ces langages à quels instants précis doivent être déclenchées et terminées les activités du système. Cette gestion du temps, précise et explicite, apporte au système son caractère déterministe. Le langage proposé, Extended Timing Definition Language (E-TDL), étend des langages dirigés par le temps existants, en particulier Giotto et TDL, en introduisant un nouveau modèle de tâche donné par quatre paramètres : phase, pire temps d’exécution, temps d’exécution logique TEL (intervalle de temps séparant le lancement de la tâche et sa terminaison) et période.L’introduction de ce nouveau modèle de tâche nécessite de revisiter en particulier le problème de l’ordonnançabilité des tâches pour EDF. Cette thèse propose et développe une analyse basée sur la fonction de demande pour des ensembles de tâches décrites en E-TDL et s’exécutant en contexte monoprocesseur. Une condition nécessaire et suffisante est obtenue au travers d’une analyse précise des intervalles séparant les activations de tâches au sein de différents modules s’exécutant indépendamment et pouvant changer de mode à des instants prédéfinis. Une borne de la longueur des intervalles sur lesquels doit s’opérer la vérification est déterminée. Un outil mettant en œuvre cette analyse a été développé

Architectural and compiler support for strongly atomic transactional memory

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212).Transactions are gaining ground as a programmer-friendly means of expressing concurrency, as microarchitecture trends make it clear that parallel systems are in our future. This thesis presents the design and implementation of four efficient and powerful transaction systems: ApeX, an object oriented software-only system; UTM and LTM, two scalable systems using custom processor extensions; and HyApeX, a hybrid of the software and hardware systems, obtaining the benefits of both. The software transaction system implements strong atomicity, which ensures that transactions are protected from the influence of nontransactional code. Previous software systems use weaker atomicity guarantees because strong atomicity is presumed to be too expensive. In this thesis strong atomicity is obtained with minimal slowdown for nontransactional code. Compiler analyses can further improve the eciency of the mechanism, which has been formally veried with the Spin model-checker. The low overhead of ApeX allows it to be protably combined with a hardware transaction system to provide fast execution of short and small transactions, while allowing fallback to software for large or complicated transactions. I present UTM, a hardware transactional memory system allowing unbounded virtualizable transactions, and show how a hybrid system can be obtained.by C. Scott Ananian.Ph.D