Abstract - Technical Program - 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium
A Soft Real-time Scheduling Server on the Windows NT
Chih-han Lin, Hao-hua Chu, and Klara Nahrstedt
University of Illinois
Abstract
We present the design and implementation of a soft real time CPU
server for the time-sensitive multimedia applications in the Windows
NT environment. The server is a user-level daemon process from
which multimedia applications can request and acquire periodic
processing time in the well-known form of (processing time per
period). Our server is based on a careful manipulation of the
real time(RT) priority class, and it does not require any
modifications to the kernel. It provides (1) the rate monotonic
scheduling algorithm, (2) support for multiple processors (SMP model),
(3) limited overrun protection among real-time(RT) processes, (4) fair
allocation between the RT and time sharing (TS) processes so that TS
processes are not starved for processing time, (5) accessibility by a
normal user privilege, and (6) an efficient implementation. We have
implemented the CPU scheduling server on top of the Windows NT 4.0
operating system with dual Pentium processors, and we have shown
through experiments that our CPU scheduling server provides good soft
real time support for the multimedia applications.
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