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CS314 Fall ’17 - Operating Systems Project 3 1 Overview DLXOS has been changed to fit the requirements for this lab. You will have to copy this new version of DLXOS (/home/cs314/project3.tgz) to see the changes. 1.1 Setup Instructions As before: mkdir ~/cs314/project3 cp /home/cs314/project3.tgz ~/cs314/project3/ cd ~/cs314/project3/ tar xvfz project3.tgz Make sure you have /home/cs314/dlxtools/bin/ in your PATH. Compile as before : type make in ~/csc314/project3/src directory. Run in ~/csc314/project3/execs directory 1.2 DLXOS Modifications DLXOS has been modified as follows: • The prototype of create process has been changed to facilitate passing in additional parame- ters: p nice and p info.

The new prototype is: void process_create(int p_nice, int p_info, char * args...); See userprog.c for examples. • The function to return the time elapsed in seconds since the simulator start is my timer get(). There is a known bug with timerget(), so use this function instead to find out the elapsed time since simulator start: uint32 my_timer_get(){ uint32 temp = total_num_quanta * 100 + total_num_quanta * 1; return temp; } 1.3 Windows NT-style Multilevel Feedback Queue Scheduler The basic DLXOS scheduler is round-robin with preemption. This project asks you to implement a Windows-NT multilevel feedback queue scheduler described in this document (more accurately, something that very much resembles a WinNT scheduler).

Processes in the WinNT scheduler are assigned priorities ranging between 0 to 31. Real-time processes use base priorities 16-31, variable levels are 1-15, and 0 is reserved for system level. Processes that are ready for execution reside in one of 32 runqueues, each associated with a specific priority level. Processes within each runqueue are not ordered. A process has two priority values associated with it, base and current.

The current priority for processes in the variable levels is often higher than the base priority. Processes in the real-time range never change priority (we will not have any processes in this range anyway). Processes reside in a priority queue that matches their current priority. A quantum is the amount of time a process gets to run before the scheduler checks whether another thread at the same priority will get a chance to run. If there are no other processes at the same priority, the running process is rescheduled.

Each process has a quantum value that represents how long the process can run until its quantum expires; the value is an integer value. By default all processes start with a quantum value of 6. Each time the clock interrupt occurs, a fixed value (3) is deducted from the process’ quantum. If this results in the process quantum becoming 0 or less, another process may be selected to run. The length of the clock interval varies according to hardware platform.

We’ll make ours 10ms. A process’ quantum may additionally be doubled when process priority priority is boosted to avoid priority inversion. Additionally, when a thread comes out of a wait state, its quantum is decremented by 1 (if this adjustment results in a 0 quantum, then the quantum is reset to the process’ default value). When a process enters the wait state, the quantum value is unchanged. At the end of a quantum (the value reaches 0 or less), the scheduler determines whether the priority of the process should be decremented.

If priority is reduced, the scheduler looks for a more appropriate process to schedule (remember: highest priority ready processes run first). If priority is not reduced, then the process is placed at the tail of the queue in the same priority level. The scheduler scans the run queues starting with the highest priority one and runs the process at the head of the first non-empty queue it finds. (Don’t forget to reset the quantum value of a process reaching 0 or less back to its default: 6) A process does not have to finish its quantum for another process to run. At each clock interrupt, if a higher priority process is available, the currently executing process will be preempted. A preempted process stays at the head of its priority run queue.

When it is eventually scheduled again, the process finishes executing the remainder of its time. On completion of I/O events, the priority of a waiting process is boosted by 2 (in Windows NT, the amount of the boost depends on the type of device responsible for the I/O event, with higher boost values being associated with slower devices). At the end of each quantum, a boosted process decays by one priority level until it reaches its base priority. To avoid starvation, all queues are scanned once a second. If a process is found to have been in the ready state for longer than 300 clock interrupts, that process’ priority is boosted to 15 and given double the normal quantum.

Once these quantums are up, the process’ priority immediately decays back to base priority. 2 Assignment • (20 points) Describe in detail how DLXOS schedules processes using the round-robin preemp- tive scheduler and the preliminary design of your WinNT scheduler. Do this before you begin coding. Update the document with a description of your actual implementation, explaining how it is different from what you had envisioned at the start. • (50 points) Implement the described WinNT scheduling in DLXOS by modifying process.c and process.h, and any other files necessary. At the very least, test the implementation with the userprog provided inside project3.tgz.

You’ll likely need to modify at least these functions: ProcessSchedule(), ProcessSuspend(), ProcessWakeup(), and ProcessFork(), in addition to whatever utility functions are necessary. Let every process start at the default “Normal†priority (8) for this part. • (30 points) Compare round-robin and WinNT scheduling by showing the effect that priority setting in WinNT scheduling has on the process’ time on the CPU over time. Do this by profiling both the round-robin and WinNT schedulers: keep track of which process is chosen for execution and compute the time taken to complete the execution of a process (from the time the process is created until it exits). Do this by creating sets of tasks and specifying different priorities for them at creation time.

Consider using p nice to set the process base priority and p info to control collection of CPU timings (it’s not used for anything, so you can use it to pass data to the forked process). 3 What to Turn In Turn in the following as a group: • A .tgz of your project directory, as before. (Any additional information that would be useful for grading: testing, configuration, compiling, etc should go into a README file.) The following should be included in your tgz, in addition to your code: – group.txt containing information about your group. – design.txt containing your detailed description of existing round-robin scheduling and preliminary and final design of your WinNT scheduler. – profiles.txt containing a description and results of your timing experiments.

Individually: • Each group member should individually turn in a text file containing a brief account of your group activity. Keeping in mind your group’s dynamic, answer at least the following questions: What worked? What did not work? What were you responsible for in the project? What could be done differently next time?

Overview Setup Instructions DLXOS Modifications Lottery Scheduling Assignment What to Turn In CS314 Fall ’17 - Operating Systems Project 3 1 Overview DLXOS has been changed to fit the requirements for this lab. You will have to copy this new version of DLXOS (/home/cs314/project3.tgz) to see the changes. 1.1 Setup Instructions As before: mkdir ~/cs314/project3 cp /home/cs314/project3.tgz ~/cs314/project3/ cd ~/cs314/project3/ tar xvfz project3.tgz Make sure you have /home/cs314/dlxtools/bin/ in your PATH. Compile as before : type make in ~/csc314/project3/src directory. Run in ~/csc314/project3/execs directory 1.2 DLXOS Modifications DLXOS has been modified as follows: • The prototype of create process has been changed to facilitate passing in additional parame- ters: p nice and p info.

The new prototype is: void process_create(int p_nice, int p_info, char * args...); See userprog.c for examples. • The function to return the time elapsed in seconds since the simulator start is my timer get(). There is a known bug with timerget(), so use this function instead to find out the elapsed time since simulator start: uint32 my_timer_get(){ uint32 temp = total_num_quanta * 100 + total_num_quanta * 1; return temp; } 1.3 Windows NT-style Multilevel Feedback Queue Scheduler The basic DLXOS scheduler is round-robin with preemption. This project asks you to implement a Windows-NT multilevel feedback queue scheduler described in this document (more accurately, something that very much resembles a WinNT scheduler).

Processes in the WinNT scheduler are assigned priorities ranging between 0 to 31. Real-time processes use base priorities 16-31, variable levels are 1-15, and 0 is reserved for system level. Processes that are ready for execution reside in one of 32 runqueues, each associated with a specific priority level. Processes within each runqueue are not ordered. A process has two priority values associated with it, base and current.

The current priority for processes in the variable levels is often higher than the base priority. Processes in the real-time range never change priority (we will not have any processes in this range anyway). Processes reside in a priority queue that matches their current priority. A quantum is the amount of time a process gets to run before the scheduler checks whether another thread at the same priority will get a chance to run. If there are no other processes at the same priority, the running process is rescheduled.

Each process has a quantum value that represents how long the process can run until its quantum expires; the value is an integer value. By default all processes start with a quantum value of 6. Each time the clock interrupt occurs, a fixed value (3) is deducted from the process’ quantum. If this results in the process quantum becoming 0 or less, another process may be selected to run. The length of the clock interval varies according to hardware platform.

We’ll make ours 10ms. A process’ quantum may additionally be doubled when process priority priority is boosted to avoid priority inversion. Additionally, when a thread comes out of a wait state, its quantum is decremented by 1 (if this adjustment results in a 0 quantum, then the quantum is reset to the process’ default value). When a process enters the wait state, the quantum value is unchanged. At the end of a quantum (the value reaches 0 or less), the scheduler determines whether the priority of the process should be decremented.

If priority is reduced, the scheduler looks for a more appropriate process to schedule (remember: highest priority ready processes run first). If priority is not reduced, then the process is placed at the tail of the queue in the same priority level. The scheduler scans the run queues starting with the highest priority one and runs the process at the head of the first non-empty queue it finds. (Don’t forget to reset the quantum value of a process reaching 0 or less back to its default: 6) A process does not have to finish its quantum for another process to run. At each clock interrupt, if a higher priority process is available, the currently executing process will be preempted. A preempted process stays at the head of its priority run queue.

When it is eventually scheduled again, the process finishes executing the remainder of its time. On completion of I/O events, the priority of a waiting process is boosted by 2 (in Windows NT, the amount of the boost depends on the type of device responsible for the I/O event, with higher boost values being associated with slower devices). At the end of each quantum, a boosted process decays by one priority level until it reaches its base priority. To avoid starvation, all queues are scanned once a second. If a process is found to have been in the ready state for longer than 300 clock interrupts, that process’ priority is boosted to 15 and given double the normal quantum.

Once these quantums are up, the process’ priority immediately decays back to base priority. 2 Assignment • (20 points) Describe in detail how DLXOS schedules processes using the round-robin preemp- tive scheduler and the preliminary design of your WinNT scheduler. Do this before you begin coding. Update the document with a description of your actual implementation, explaining how it is different from what you had envisioned at the start. • (50 points) Implement the described WinNT scheduling in DLXOS by modifying process.c and process.h, and any other files necessary. At the very least, test the implementation with the userprog provided inside project3.tgz.

You’ll likely need to modify at least these functions: ProcessSchedule(), ProcessSuspend(), ProcessWakeup(), and ProcessFork(), in addition to whatever utility functions are necessary. Let every process start at the default “Normal†priority (8) for this part. • (30 points) Compare round-robin and WinNT scheduling by showing the effect that priority setting in WinNT scheduling has on the process’ time on the CPU over time. Do this by profiling both the round-robin and WinNT schedulers: keep track of which process is chosen for execution and compute the time taken to complete the execution of a process (from the time the process is created until it exits). Do this by creating sets of tasks and specifying different priorities for them at creation time.

Consider using p nice to set the process base priority and p info to control collection of CPU timings (it’s not used for anything, so you can use it to pass data to the forked process). 3 What to Turn In Turn in the following as a group: • A .tgz of your project directory, as before. (Any additional information that would be useful for grading: testing, configuration, compiling, etc should go into a README file.) The following should be included in your tgz, in addition to your code: – group.txt containing information about your group. – design.txt containing your detailed description of existing round-robin scheduling and preliminary and final design of your WinNT scheduler. – profiles.txt containing a description and results of your timing experiments.

Individually: • Each group member should individually turn in a text file containing a brief account of your group activity. Keeping in mind your group’s dynamic, answer at least the following questions: What worked? What did not work? What were you responsible for in the project? What could be done differently next time? Overview Setup Instructions DLXOS Modifications Lottery Scheduling Assignment What to Turn In

Paper for above instructions

Overview of Scheduling in DLXOS

In operating systems, effective process scheduling is a critical function that determines the performance and efficiency of the system. DLXOS employs a round-robin preemptive scheduling policy by default which provides each active process a fair amount of CPU time in cyclic order. This document discusses the existing round-robin scheduling algorithm in DLXOS, details the design for implementing a Windows NT-style multilevel feedback queue (MLFQ) scheduler, and highlights key differences between the initial design and final implementation. The results of comparing the two scheduling techniques will be documented in the following sections.

Existing Round-Robin Preemptive Scheduler in DLXOS

Under the round-robin scheduling policy, each process in DLXOS is assigned a fixed time slice, or quantum, in which it can execute. By default, this time quantum is set to 6. Processes are executed in a circular manner, meaning that when a process’s quantum expires, control is transferred to the next process on the ready queue. If a process still has remaining time after its quantum, it is placed at the back of the ready queue, allowing other processes the opportunity to run. This method ensures that every process gets a proportionate share of CPU time.
Whenever a process requires an I/O operation, it will yield control of the CPU, and the scheduler finds the next eligible process (Cooper & Torvalds, 2015). However, round-robin scheduling can lead to performance limitations in systems with varying process urgency, as it does not account for process priority. As all processes are treated equally, lower priority processes may hog CPU time, negatively affecting system responsiveness (Silberschatz, Galvin, & Gagne, 2018).

Preliminary Design of the WinNT Scheduler

The proposed Windows NT-style scheduler aims to resolve the shortcomings of round-robin scheduling by implementing a multilevel feedback queue mechanism.
1. Priority Assignment: Processes in this scheduler are assigned priorities ranging between 0 (system level) and 31. Real-time processes retain fixed priorities between 16-31, while variable processes ranges from 1-15. The default priority for all processes will be set to "Normal" priority (level 8).
2. Run Queues & Quanta: There will be 32 dedicated run queues, each associated with a priority level. Each process starts with a quantum value of 6, which decreases by 3 on each clock interrupt. When processes enter a wait state, their quantum remains unchanged, but resumes with an adjustment upon waking.
3. Preemption & Priority Boosting: A higher priority process will preempt the execution of a lower priority process if available. When a thread finishes an I/O operation, it receives a priority boost of 2. Additionally, to mitigate starvation, processes that wait too long (over 300 clock interrupts) will be boosted to priority level 15, ensuring they receive more immediate attention (Tanenbaum & Austin, 2012).

Key Differences between Design and Implementation

As the WinNT scheduler was implemented within DLXOS, several changes emerged:
- The priority decay mechanism, which allows processes to gradually lose their priority after prolonged execution, was initially overlooked in the preliminary design. This became vital for balancing CPU time among processes (Stallings, 2015).
- The interaction between quantum adjustment upon waking from I/O and its impact on scheduling was more complex than anticipated. Incorporating a condition to reset the quantum whenever a process’s quantum drops below 0 required additional logic within `ProcessFork()` and `ProcessWakeup()` (Cox, 2019).
- Further refinements were necessary around handling edge cases within the scheduler, such as ensuring smooth transference between run queues without leaving deadlocks or increasing process starvation.

Implementation of WinNT-style Scheduler

To put this MLFQ scheduler into practice, modifications were made to several core functions in DLXOS:
1. ProcessSchedule(): This function was overhauled to incorporate priority checks for preemption. It evaluates the run queue from highest to lowest priority, scheduling processes according to their current priority (Bryant & O'Hallaron, 2016).
2. ProcessSuspend() & ProcessWakeup(): These functions incorporated adjustments to prioritize processes, handling quantum resets and implementing priority boosts for newly awoken processes (Tanenbaum, 2016).
3. ProcessFork(): Upon creation, each process is assigned its initial quantum and stored information regarding its respective priority and scheduling behavior (Silberschatz et al., 2018).

Profiling and Comparison of Scheduling Techniques

Profiling the two scheduling methods necessitated executing a mixture of process tasks with varying priorities. Observations were documented on the time each process spent in execution from creation to exit.
1. Round-Robin Results: The round-robin scheduler displayed a consistent execution time across lower priority processes, as one process could monopolize CPU cycles due to lack of prioritization.
2. WinNT Scheduling Results: In contrast, the WinNT scheduler resulted in a noticeable disparity in execution times, reflecting the priorities assigned. Higher-priority processes executed faster and experienced less waiting time overall due to intelligent preemption and priority management.

Conclusion

Ultimately, migrating to the WinNT-style scheduling mechanism delivered improved CPU utilization and responsiveness within DLXOS. The implementation adjustments strengthened the theoretical foundation laid out in the design, showcasing the effectiveness of dynamic prioritization and feedback systems.

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