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Improved Scheduling Algorithm for Synchronous Data Flow Graphs on a Homogeneous Multi-Core Systems

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In order to accelerate the execution of streaming applications on multi-core systems, this article studies the scheduling problem of synchronous data flow graphs (SDFG) on homogeneous multi-core systems. To describe… Click to show full abstract

In order to accelerate the execution of streaming applications on multi-core systems, this article studies the scheduling problem of synchronous data flow graphs (SDFG) on homogeneous multi-core systems. To describe the data flow computation process, we propose the SDAG (Super DAG) computation model based on the DAG model combined with data-driven thoughts. Further, we analyze the current common SDFG scheduling algorithms and propose an improved SDFG scheduling algorithm, LSEFT (level-shortest-first-earliest-finish time). The LSEFT algorithm uses an inverse traversal algorithm to calculate the priority of tasks in the task-selection phase; the shortest-job-priority earliest-finish-time policy is used in the processor selection phase to replace the original long job priority policy. In the experimental part, we designed an SDFG random generator and generated 958 SDFGs with the help of the random generator as test cases to verify the scheduling algorithm. The experimental results show that our improved algorithm performs well for different numbers of processor cores, especially for 8 cores, where the speedup of our improved algorithm improves by 10.17% on average.

Keywords: scheduling algorithm; synchronous data; core systems; multi core; data flow

Journal Title: Algorithms
Year Published: 2022

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