This script attempts to reproduce the results described in the 2019 paper by H. Xu and A. Burns titled "A semi-partitioned model for mixed criticality systems".

Requirements

The script runs on python3 and needs the following additional packages:

• numpy -> pip3 install numpy
• matplotlib -> pip3 install matplotlib
• progress -> pip3 install progress
• joblib -> pip3 install joblib

Usage

To launch the script with the default configuration (in optimized version):

$ cd path/to/script/directory
$ python3 -O ./run.py

To launch the script with the assertion checks:

$ cd path/to/script/directory
$ python3 ./run.py

The script will run the four tests described in the paper and produce as results four charts which will be saved at a configurable path (cfr. Configuration).

Unit tests

To run the unit tests for the RTA algorithms:

$ cd path/to/script/directory
$ python3 ./test.py

Configuration

The file config.py defines some options for the script:

• PARALLEL_JOBS defines the number of parallel tests to be run (defaults to the number of CPUs)
• VESTAL_CLASSIC, VESTAL_WITH_MONITOR, ALWAYS_HI_CRIT defines which version of Vestal's algorithm should be used for the non migrating tests
• CHECK_NO_MIGRATION, CHECK_MODEL_1, etc. defines which models to test
• RUN_FIRST_TEST, RUN_SECOND_TEST, etc. defines which tests to run
• FIRST_FIT_BP, WORST_FIT_BP defines which bin-packing algorithm to use
• RESULTS_DIR defines where to save the results
• CORES_MODE_CHANGES holds the possible sequences of core mode change
• CORES_NO_MIGRATION, CORES_MODEL_1, etc. defines the configurations used to test the different models