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Bare-Metal Execution of Hard Real-Time Tasks Within a General-Purpose Operating System

Authors Georg Wassen, Stefan Lankes

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  • Hard Real-Time System
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Non-uniform Memory Access
  • Bare-Metal Execution

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Abstract

Integrating high performance and real-time demands on multi-processor systems is a challenging task. We present our concept of isolating processes from a general-purpose operating system without deeply invading modifications. This allows executing code on dedicated CPUs with minimum latency and jitter like bare-metal on micro-controllers. The unbounded execution of mixed critical processes on the same system induces performance interference in real-time tasks. We present the implementation of isolated partitions on multi-processor x86 systems running Linux and describe challenges restoring operating system stability. This work also presents our experience with Non-Uniform Memory Access architectures that allow to partition the system in a way that the impact to memory and I/O transfers of other partitions is minimized.

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Georg Wassen and Stefan Lankes. Bare-Metal Execution of Hard Real-Time Tasks Within a General-Purpose Operating System. In 15th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 47, pp. 75-84, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2015.75

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Georg Wassen
Stefan Lankes

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