Scheduling algorithms for Elastic Mixed-Criticality tasks in multicore systems

The Elastic Mixed-Criticality (E-MC) task model and an Early-Release EDF (ER-EDF) scheduling algorithm have been studied to address the service interruption problem for low-criticality tasks in uniprocessor systems. In this paper, focusing on multicore systems, we first investigate the schedulability of E-MC tasks under partitioned-EDF (P-EDF) by considering various task-to-core mapping heuristics. Then, with and without task migrations being considered, we study both global and local early-release schemes. Compared to the state-of-the-art Global EDF-VD scheduler, the superior performance of the proposed schemes in terms of improving the service levels of low-criticality tasks is confirmed through extensive simulations.