Multicore scheduling of parallel real-time tasks with multiple parallelization options

Abstract

Past researches on multicore scheduling assume that a computational unit has already been parallelized into a prefixed number of threads. However, with recent technologies such as OpenCL, a computational unit can be parallelized in many different ways with runtime selectable numbers of threads. This paper proposes an optimal algorithm for parallelizing and scheduling a set of parallel tasks with multiple parallelization options on multiple CPU cores. The proposed algorithm is validated through both simulation and actual implementation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work addressing the problem of scheduling real-time tasks with multiple parallelization options on multiple CPU cores.