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Summary: To be presented at the 17th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1996.
A Framework for Implementing Objects and Scheduling Tasks in Lock-Free
Real-Time Systems
James H. Anderson and Srikanth Ramamurthy
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
We present an integrated framework for developing real-
time systems in which lock-free algorithms are employed to
implement shared objects. There are two key objectives of
our work. The first is to enable functionalityfor object shar-
ing in lock-free real-time systems that is comparable to that
in lock-based systems. Our main contribution toward this
objective is an efficient approach for implementing multi-
object lock-free operations and transactions. A second key
objective of our work is to improve upon previously proposed
scheduling conditions for tasks that share lock-free objects.
When developing such conditions, the key issue is to bound
the cost of operation "interferences". We present a general
approach for doing this, based on linear programming.
1. Introduction
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