[工程科技]ElnozahyTheinterplayofpowermanagementandfaultrecoveryinreal-timesystems.pdfVIP

The Interplay of Power Management and Fault Recovery in Real-Time Systems Rami Melhem, Daniel Moss´e Elmootazbellah (Mootaz) Elnozahy Computer Science Department System Software Department University of Pittsburgh IBM Austin Research Laboratory Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Austin, TX 78758 fmelhem mosse gcspitt edu mootazusibmcom Abstract This paper describes how to exploit the scheduling slack in a real-time system to reduce energy consumption and achieve fault tolerance at the same time. During failure- free operation, a task takes checkpoints to enable recovery from failure. Additionally, the system exploits the slack to conserve energy by reducing the processor speed. If a task fails, it will restart from a saved checkpoint and execute at maximum speed to guarantee that the deadlines are met. The paper shows that the number of checkpoints and their placements interact in sub- tle ways with the power management policy. We study two checkpoint placement policies for aperiodic tasks and analytically derive the optimal number of checkpoints to conserve energy under each. This optimal number allows the CPU speed to be slowed down to the level that yields minimum energy consumption, while still guaranteeing recoverabil- ity of tasks under each checkpointing policy. The results show that traditional periodic checkpointing is not the best policy for the combined purpose of conserving energy and guaranteeing recovery. Instead, better energy savings are possible through a non-uniform distribution of checkpoints that takes into account the energy consumption and reliability fact