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Using Lock Servers to Scale Real-Time Locking Protocols: Chasing Ever-Increasing Core Counts

Authors Catherine E. Nemitz, Tanya Amert, James H. Anderson

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  • Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
  • Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  • Software and its engineering → Mutual exclusion
  • Software and its engineering → Real-time systems software
  • Software and its engineering → Synchronization
  • Software and its engineering → Process synchronization
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  • multiprocess locking protocols
  • nested locks
  • priority-inversion blocking
  • reader/writer locks
  • real-time locking protocols

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Abstract

During the past decade, parallelism-related issues have been at the forefront of real-time systems research due to the advent of multicore technologies. In the coming years, such issues will loom ever larger due to increasing core counts. Having more cores means a greater potential exists for platform capacity loss when the available parallelism cannot be fully exploited. In this paper, such capacity loss is considered in the context of real-time locking protocols. In this context, lock nesting becomes a key concern as it can result in transitive blocking chains that force tasks to execute sequentially unnecessarily. Such chains can be quite long on a larger machine. Contention-sensitive real-time locking protocols have been proposed as a means of "breaking" transitive blocking chains, but such protocols tend to have high overhead due to more complicated lock/unlock logic. To ease such overhead, the usage of lock servers is considered herein. In particular, four specific lock-server paradigms are proposed and many nuances concerning their deployment are explored. Experiments are presented that show that, by executing cache hot, lock servers can enable reductions in lock/unlock overhead of up to 86%. Such reductions make contention-sensitive protocols a viable approach in practice.

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Catherine E. Nemitz, Tanya Amert, and James H. Anderson. Using Lock Servers to Scale Real-Time Locking Protocols: Chasing Ever-Increasing Core Counts. In 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 106, pp. 25:1-25:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.25

Author Details

Catherine E. Nemitz
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Tanya Amert
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
James H. Anderson
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Funding

Work supported by NSF grants CNS 1409175, CPS 1446631, CNS 1563845, and CNS 1717589, ARO grant W911NF-17-1-0294, and funding from General Motors.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGS-1650116. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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