A Scheduling Architecture for Enforcing Quality of Service in Multi-Process Systems

• There is a massive deployment of multi-core CPUs. It requires a significant drive to consolidate multiple services while still achieving high performance on these off-the-shelf CPUs. Each function had earlier an own execution environment, which guaranteed a certain Quality of Service (QoS). Consolidating multiple services can give rise to shared resource congestions, resulting in lower and non-deterministic QoS. We describe a method to increase the overall system performance by assisting the operating system process scheduler to utilize shared resources more efficiently. Our method utilizes hardware- and system-level performance counters to profile the shared resource usage of each process. We also use a big-data approach to analyzing statistics from many nodes. The outcome of the analysis is a decision support model that is utilized by the process scheduler when allocating and scheduling process. Our scheduler can efficiently distribute processes compared to traditional CPU-load based process schedulers by considering the hardware capacity and previous scheduling- and allocation decisions.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

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