Federated Scheduling of Sporadic DAGs on Unrelated Multiprocessors

Journal article, 2021

This paper presents a federated scheduling algorithm for implicit-deadline sporadic DAGs that execute on an unrelated heterogeneous multiprocessor platform. We consider a global work-conserving scheduler to execute a single DAG exclusively on a subset of the unrelated processors. Formal schedulability analysis to find the makespan of a DAG on its dedicated subset of the processors is proposed. The problem of determining each subset of dedicated unrelated processors for each DAG such that the DAG meets its deadline (i.e., designing the federated scheduling algorithm) is tackled by proposing a novel processors-to-task assignment heuristic using a new concept called processor value. Empirical evaluation is presented to show the effectiveness of our approach.