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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.5
Shared Resource Contention in MCUs: A Reality Check and the Quest for Timeliness

Authors: Daniel Oliveira, Weifan Chen, Sandro Pinto, and Renato Mancuso

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 298, 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024)

Abstract
Microcontrollers (MCUs) are steadily embracing multi-core technology to meet growing performance demands. This trend marks a shift from their traditionally simple, deterministic designs to more complex and inherently less predictable architectures. While shared resource contention is well-studied in mid to high-end embedded systems, the emergence of multi-core architectures in MCUs introduces unique challenges and characteristics that existing research has not fully explored. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth investigation of both mainstream and next-generation MCU-based platforms, aiming to identify the sources of contention on systems typically lacking these problems. We empirically demonstrate substantial contention effects across different MCU architectures (i.e., from single- to multi-core configurations), highlighting significant application slowdowns. Notably, we observe that slowdowns can reach several orders of magnitude, with the most extreme cases showing up to a 3800x (times, not percent) increase in execution time. To address these issues, we propose and evaluate muTPArtc, a novel mechanism designed for Timely Progress Assessment (TPA) and TPA-based runtime control specifically tailored to MCUs. muTPArtc is an MCU-specialized TPA-based mechanism that leverages hardware facilities widely available in commercial off-the-shelf MCUs (i.e., hardware breakpoints and cycle counters) to successfully monitor applications' progress, detect, and mitigate timing violations. Our results demonstrate that muTPArtc effectively manages performance degradation due to interference, requiring only minimal modifications to the build pipeline and no changes to the source code of the target application, while incurring minor overheads.
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Daniel Oliveira, Weifan Chen, Sandro Pinto, and Renato Mancuso. Shared Resource Contention in MCUs: A Reality Check and the Quest for Timeliness. In 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 298, pp. 5:1-5:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{oliveira_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.5,
  author =	{Oliveira, Daniel and Chen, Weifan and Pinto, Sandro and Mancuso, Renato},
  title =	{{Shared Resource Contention in MCUs: A Reality Check and the Quest for Timeliness}},
  booktitle =	{36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-324-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{298},
  editor =	{Pellizzoni, Rodolfo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203088},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: multi-core microcontrollers, shared resources contention, progress-aware regulation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2023.2
IRQ Coloring: Mitigating Interrupt-Generated Interference on ARM Multicore Platforms

Authors: Diogo Costa, Luca Cuomo, Daniel Oliveira, Ida Maria Savino, Bruno Morelli, José Martins, Fabrizio Tronci, Alessandro Biasci, and Sandro Pinto

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 108, Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2023)

Abstract
Mixed-criticality systems, which consolidate workloads with different criticalities, must comply with stringent spatial and temporal isolation requirements imposed by safety-critical standards (e.g., ISO26262). This, per se, has proven to be a challenge with the advent of multicore platforms due to the inner interference created by multiple subsystems while disputing access to shared resources. With this work, we pioneer the concept of Interrupt (IRQ) coloring as a novel mechanism to minimize the interference created by co-existing interrupt-driven workloads. The main idea consists of selectively deactivating specific ("colored") interrupts if the QoS of critical workloads (e.g., Virtual Machines) drops below a well-defined threshold. The IRQ Coloring approach encompasses two artifacts, i.e., the IRQ Coloring Design-Time Tool (IRQ DTT) and the IRQ Coloring Run-Time Mechanism (IRQ RTM). In this paper, we focus on presenting the conceptual IRQ coloring design, describing the first prototype of the IRQ RTM on Bao hypervisor, and providing initial evidence about the effectiveness of the proposed approach on a synthetic use case.
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Diogo Costa, Luca Cuomo, Daniel Oliveira, Ida Maria Savino, Bruno Morelli, José Martins, Fabrizio Tronci, Alessandro Biasci, and Sandro Pinto. IRQ Coloring: Mitigating Interrupt-Generated Interference on ARM Multicore Platforms. In Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 108, pp. 2:1-2:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{costa_et_al:OASIcs.NG-RES.2023.2,
  author =	{Costa, Diogo and Cuomo, Luca and Oliveira, Daniel and Savino, Ida Maria and Morelli, Bruno and Martins, Jos\'{e} and Tronci, Fabrizio and Biasci, Alessandro and Pinto, Sandro},
  title =	{{IRQ Coloring: Mitigating Interrupt-Generated Interference on ARM Multicore Platforms}},
  booktitle =	{Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2023)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:13},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-268-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{108},
  editor =	{Terraneo, Federico and Cattaneo, Daniele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2023.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-177333},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2023.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: IRQ coloring, Interrupt Interference, Mixed-Criticality Systems, Hypervisors, Bao, Arm}
}
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