July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
16h 52m
English
Content preview from Computers as Components, 2nd Edition
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
346 CHAPTER 6 Processes and Operating Systems
■ Rate-monotonic scheduling (RMS) is a simple but powerful scheduling
policy.
■ Interprocess communication mechanisms allow data to be passed reliably
between processes.
■ Scheduling analysis often ignores certain real-world effects. Cache interactions
between processes are the most important effects to consider when designing
a system.
FURTHER READING
Gallmeister [Gal95] provides a thorough and very readable introduction to POSIX
in general and its real-time aspects in particular. Liu and Layland [Liu73] introduce
rate-monotonic scheduling; this paper became the foundation for real-time systems
analysis and ...