Integração de características preemptivas à técnica de escalonamento dinâmico de tensões e frequências intra-tarefa

Abstract

Embedded systems have evolved significantly in recent years,mainlyduetoadvances in technology, cost reduction of electronic equipment, and mainly the popularization of mobile devices. Many of these systems require energy resources from battery to maintain the operation of their various components. However, for these devices to have a good autonomy, several techniques and methodologies have been implemented to better manage energy consumption of the system as a whole. This need has contributed to the rise of various lines of research, mainly in the area of real-time systems, where the complicating factor is not only reducing energy consumptionbutalsorespectthetime constraints of all tasks running on the system. Thus, this work aims to maximize energy gains from the use of intra-task dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technique, also known as intra-task DVFS. The proposed online methodology aims to achieve better management of exchanging voltages and frequency of the processor, through a collaborative approach between real-time applications and the operating system. Therefore, both can work together, within the kernel of the system, to reduce the response times of the processor context switches, mainly after preemptions. The experimental results, using the C-Benchmarck, showed that it is possible to decrease about 6% processor power consumption even performing all tasks in the worst case.