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A Memory Scheduling Infrastructure for Multi-Core Systems with Re-Programmable Logic

Authors Denis Hoornaert, Shahin Roozkhosh, Renato Mancuso

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  • Computer systems organization → Real-time system architecture
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  • Memory Scheduling
  • PLIM
  • FPGA
  • Memory Management
  • Bandwidth Regulation
  • MemGuard
  • Coloring
  • Bank Partitioning
  • Real-time
  • Multicore
  • Safety-critical

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Abstract

The sharp increase in demand for performance has prompted an explosion in the complexity of modern multi-core embedded systems. This has lead to unprecedented temporal unpredictability concerns in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). On-chip integration of programmable logic (PL) alongside a conventional Processing System (PS) in modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC) establishes a genuine compromise between specialization, performance, and reconfigurability. In addition to typical use-cases, it has been shown that the PL can be used to observe, manipulate, and ultimately manage memory traffic generated by a traditional multi-core processor.
This paper explores the possibility of PL-aided memory scheduling by proposing a Scheduler In-the-Middle (SchIM). We demonstrate that the SchIM enables transaction-level control over the main memory traffic generated by a set of embedded cores. Focusing on extensibility and reconfigurability, we put forward a SchIM design covering two main objectives. First, to provide a safe playground to test innovative memory scheduling mechanisms; and second, to establish a transition path from software-based memory regulation to provably correct hardware-enforced memory scheduling. We evaluate our design through a full-system implementation on a commercial PS-PL platform using synthetic and real-world benchmarks.

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Denis Hoornaert, Shahin Roozkhosh, and Renato Mancuso. A Memory Scheduling Infrastructure for Multi-Core Systems with Re-Programmable Logic. In 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 196, pp. 2:1-2:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.2

Author Details

Denis Hoornaert
  • TU München, Germany
Shahin Roozkhosh
  • Boston University, MA, USA
Renato Mancuso
  • Boston University, MA, USA

Funding

  • Hoornaert, Denis: Denis Hoornaert was supported by the Chair for Cyber-Physical Systems in Production Engineering at TUM and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  • Mancuso, Renato: The material presented in this paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant number CCF-2008799. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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