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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.2
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139331
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/13933/
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Hoornaert, Denis ; Roozkhosh, Shahin ; Mancuso, Renato

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

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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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@InProceedings{hoornaert_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.2,
  author =	{Hoornaert, Denis and Roozkhosh, Shahin and Mancuso, Renato},
  title =	{{A Memory Scheduling Infrastructure for Multi-Core Systems with Re-Programmable Logic}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-192-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{196},
  editor =	{Brandenburg, Bj\"{o}rn B.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/13933},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139331},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Memory Scheduling, PLIM, FPGA, Memory Management, Bandwidth Regulation, MemGuard, Coloring, Bank Partitioning, Real-time, Multicore, Safety-critical}
}

Keywords: Memory Scheduling, PLIM, FPGA, Memory Management, Bandwidth Regulation, MemGuard, Coloring, Bank Partitioning, Real-time, Multicore, Safety-critical
Collection: 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 30.06.2021
Supplementary Material: The SchIM sources are available at
Software: https://github.com/denishoornaert/MemorEDF

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