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A. Friebe, T. Cucinotta, F. Markovic, A. Papadopoulos, T. Nolte. "Nip It In The Bud: Job Acceptance Multi-Server," (to appear in) 31st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (IEEE RTAS 2025), May 6-9, 2025, Ivine, USA.
Computationally demanding tasks with highly variable execution times may require parallel processing. Scheduling such tasks with low deadline miss rates but without significant overprovisioning is challenging. This issue arises in applications like nonlinear optimization for Model Predictive Control (MPC). The Constant Bandwidth Server (CBS) provides timing isolation, supporting both hard and soft real-time tasks. However, scheduling parallel, time-varying jobs across multiple CBS instances requires static job-to-server assignments, which can lead to resource underutilization due to queued jobs awaiting specific servers. This paper introduces the Job Acceptance Multi-Server (JAMS), a mechanism in which multiple CBS instances share a common job queue, enabling flexible job dispatching for parallel workloads. JAMS incorporates a job dismissal mechanism to address overloads, ensuring that only jobs with guaran- teed resource availability are accepted. Each CBS instance checks if it can complete a job by its deadline, given probabilistic knowledge on its execution times, dismissing unfeasible jobs to avoid excessive tardiness across queued tasks. Implemented in Linux, JAMS is evaluated with computation times drawn from an MPC task and synthetic datasets. The extensive experimental results we provide, demonstrate that JAMS effectively controls the deadline miss rate, maintaining it below a specified design threshold.
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