Re: [Xenomai-core] EDF or RM scheduler for Xenomai
Germain Olivier wrote: At the beginning of October I've posted on the RTAI mailing list a question about the development of additional scheduler for RTAI/Fusion. About the pluggable scheduler infrastructure, can you give more details on what you expect ? An implementation in the nucleus that make scheduling policies provided as software plugins, so that we don't end up with braindamage exception cases in nucleus/pod.c in order to support them. As of now, nucleus/pod.c implements the fixed priority FIFO policy in a hard-wired manner: to have other policies integrated into the core, we need to think of a lightweight generic infrastructure for hosting those plugins that would replace the hard-coded, FIFO-based, scheduling decisions. Also I'm searching in which files the priority inheritance mechanism code is implemented. nucleus/sync.c. Thanks Germain 100% agreed. The key issue is having the pluggable scheduler infrastructure which fusion currently lacks. After that, other scheduling policies than fixed-priority FIFO could be mapped cleanly and easily on top of it. Jan Kiszka wrote: Germain wrote: According to refactoring.txt from Fusion doc directory, Rate Monotonic and EDF are not supported in Fusion. I'm in my last year of CS engineering school with a major in Emmbedded Systems. One of the subject of my final year project is to write a scheduler (Rate Monotonic, Earliest Deadline First or Least Laxity First). So I want to know what kind of knowledges is required to put the hand in RTAI and develop a such thing. We are two and we have to finish for early february. We have skills in C, real time theory and developpment (with Java), and system programming. This would best be answered by the nucleus maintainer, who seems to be offline ATM. Philippe already acknowledged the usefulness of a more flexible scheduling subsystem which, e.g., allows to select a different policy during compile time or even later. What is certainly required for this is a clean framework that keeps the compatibility with the upper (skins) and lower layers (hal) - as far as possible. Again, this is something to discuss best with Philippe directly. I guess he will jump into this thread when time permits. In my eyes, your work would be very welcome. 100% agreed. The key issue is having the pluggable scheduler infrastructure which fusion currently lacks. After that, other scheduling policies than fixed-priority FIFO could be mapped cleanly and easily on top of it. Hint: scheduling issues are all sorted out inside nucleus/pod.c; nucleus/synch.c should be also studied in order to find out the relashionships that exist between base synchronization object management and scheduling deci ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core -- Philippe. ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
Re: [Xenomai-core] EDF or RM scheduler for Xenomai
Germain Olivier wrote: At the beginning of October I've posted on the RTAI mailing list a question about the development of additional scheduler for RTAI/Fusion. About the pluggable scheduler infrastructure, can you give more details on what you expect ? An implementation in the nucleus that make scheduling policies provided as software plugins, so that we don't end up with braindamage exception cases in nucleus/pod.c in order to support them. As of now, nucleus/pod.c implements the fixed priority FIFO policy in a hard-wired manner: to have other policies integrated into the core, we need to think of a lightweight generic infrastructure for hosting those plugins that would replace the hard-coded, FIFO-based, scheduling decisions. Also I'm searching in which files the priority inheritance mechanism code is implemented. nucleus/sync.c. Thanks Germain 100% agreed. The key issue is having the pluggable scheduler infrastructure which fusion currently lacks. After that, other scheduling policies than fixed-priority FIFO could be mapped cleanly and easily on top of it. Jan Kiszka wrote: Germain wrote: According to refactoring.txt from Fusion doc directory, Rate Monotonic and EDF are not supported in Fusion. I'm in my last year of CS engineering school with a major in Emmbedded Systems. One of the subject of my final year project is to write a scheduler (Rate Monotonic, Earliest Deadline First or Least Laxity First). So I want to know what kind of knowledges is required to put the hand in RTAI and develop a such thing. We are two and we have to finish for early february. We have skills in C, real time theory and developpment (with Java), and system programming. This would best be answered by the nucleus maintainer, who seems to be offline ATM. Philippe already acknowledged the usefulness of a more flexible scheduling subsystem which, e.g., allows to select a different policy during compile time or even later. What is certainly required for this is a clean framework that keeps the compatibility with the upper (skins) and lower layers (hal) - as far as possible. Again, this is something to discuss best with Philippe directly. I guess he will jump into this thread when time permits. In my eyes, your work would be very welcome. 100% agreed. The key issue is having the pluggable scheduler infrastructure which fusion currently lacks. After that, other scheduling policies than fixed-priority FIFO could be mapped cleanly and easily on top of it. Hint: scheduling issues are all sorted out inside nucleus/pod.c; nucleus/synch.c should be also studied in order to find out the relashionships that exist between base synchronization object management and scheduling deci ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core -- Philippe.
