Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and SystemsVol.E92-DNo.10pp.2152-2155 Publication Date: 2009/10/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E92.D.2152 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Dependable Computing Keyword: real-time system, non-preemptive scheduling, fixed priority,
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Summary: It is known that the schedulability of a non-preemptive task set with fixed priority can be determined in pseudo-polynomial time. However, since Rate Monotonic scheduling is not optimal for non-preemptive scheduling, the applicability of existing polynomial time tests that provide sufficient schedulability conditions, such as Liu and Layland's bound, is limited. This letter proposes a new sufficient condition for non-preemptive fixed priority scheduling that can be used for any fixed priority assignment scheme. It is also shown that the proposed schedulability test has a tighter utilization bound than existing test methods.