© University of Kent - Contact | Feedback | Legal | FOI | Cookies
Scheduling hard real-time garbage collection
Tomas Kalibera, Filip Pizlo, Antony L. Hosking, and Jan Vitek
In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pages 182-196. IEEE, December 2009 [doi].Abstract
Managed languages such as Java and C# are increasingly being considered for hard real-time applications because of their productivity and software engineering advantages. Automatic memory management, or garbage collection, is a key enabler for robust, reusable libraries, yet remains a challenge for analysis and implementation of real-time execution environments. This paper comprehensively compares the two leading approaches to hard real-time garbage collection. While there are many design decisions involved in selecting a real-time garbage collection algorithm, for time-based garbage collectors researchers and practitioners remain undecided as to whether to choose periodic scheduling or slack-based scheduling. A significant impediment to valid experimental comparison is that the commercial implementations use completely different proprietary infrastructures. Here, we present Minuteman, a framework for experimenting with real-time collection algorithms in the context of a high-performance execution environment for real-time Java. We provide the first comparison of the two approaches, both experimentally using realistic workloads, and analytically in terms of schedulability.
Download publication 208 kbytes (PDF)Bibtex Record
@inproceedings{3131,
author = {Tomas Kalibera and Filip Pizlo and Antony L. Hosking and Jan Vitek},
title = {Scheduling Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection},
month = {December},
year = {2009},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {10.1109/RTSS.2009.40},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2009/3131},
publication_type = {inproceedings},
submission_id = {1857_1308854887},
ISBN = {978-0-7695-3875-4},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)},
publisher = {IEEE},
refereed = {yes},
}