[LITMUS^RT] A masters thesis that uses LitmusRT

[Glenn Elliott]

On May 1, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Björn Brandenburg <bbb at mpi-sws.org> wrote:

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> On 01 May 2014, at 19:45, Glenn Elliott <gelliott at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
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>> Google Scholar notified me of this recent masters thesis: “Global EDF Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Tasks” by Jing Li from Washington University in St. Louis.  The last few chapters compares the performance of Litmus-aware OpenMP running on Litmus's G-EDF vs. a fixed-priority OpenMP package.  Figure 9.3 shows how each OpenMP thread coordinates with Litmus.
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>> http://cse.wustl.edu/Research/Lists/Technical%20Reports/Attachments/1046/Jing_Li_MS_Thesis%201.pdf
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> Interesting, thanks for sharing! Concerning Figure 9.3, I’m surprised this worked at all. I guess we can add OpenMP compatibility to our feature list now…  ;-)
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> - Björn

Compatible at least for this configuration.  I worry that things could go bonkers as soon as budget enforcement is enabled.  I think mayhem would ensue if the job sequence numbers got out of sync among the parallel threads.

-Glenn