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Multicore DVFS Scheduling Scheme Using Parallel Processing for Reducing Power Consumption of Periodic Real-time Tasks

주기적 실시간 작업들의 전력 소모 감소를 위한 병렬 수행을 활용한 다중코어 DVFS 스케줄링 기법

  • Pak, Suehee (Dept. of Computer Science, Dongduk Women's University)
  • 박수희 (동덕여자대학교 컴퓨터학과)
  • Received : 2014.09.11
  • Accepted : 2014.10.18
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

This paper proposes a scheduling scheme that enhances power consumption efficiency of periodic real-time tasks using DVFS and power-shut-down mechanisms while meeting their deadlines on multicore processors. The proposed scheme is suitable for dependent multicore processors in which processing cores have an identical speed at an instant, and resolves the load unbalance of processing cores by exploiting parallel processing because the load unbalance causes inefficient power consumption in previous methods. Also the scheme activates a part of processing cores and turns off the power of unused cores. The number of activated processing cores is determined through mathematical analysis. Evaluation experiments show that the proposed scheme saves up to 77% power consumption of the previous method.

본 논문에서는 다중코어 프로세서 상에서 주기적 실시간 작업들의 데드라인을 만족하면서 전력 소모량을 최소화하도록 DVFS 기법과 전원 소등 기법을 모두 사용하는 스케줄링 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 스케줄링 방법은 프로세싱 코어들이 단일 시점에 같은 속도로 동작하는 연관형 프로세서 모델에 적합하도록 설계되었고, 기존 연구에서 해결하지 못한 프로세싱 코어들의 부하불균등 현상을 병렬 수행을 작업들에 적용하여 해소함으로써 전력 소모량을 줄였다. 또한 작업들의 전체 계산량을 고려하여 일부 프로세싱 코어들만을 활성화하여 사용하고 나머지 코어들의 전원은 소등하여 전력 소모량을 줄였다. 전체 프로세싱 코어들 중에서 활성화될 프로세싱 코어들의 개수는 수학적 분석을 통하여 결정되었다. 성능 평가 실험에서 제안된 방법은 기존 방법보다 전력 소모량을 최대 77%까지 감소시킴을 보였다.

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