Experimental Study of a Reconfigurable System with Hardware Task Manager and a Distributed Queue

The article discusses the possibility of reconfigurable system design with hardware task manager and distributed queue for serving nodes. They showed structure options and the main blocks and diagrams of the task manager hardware module are described. They performed the comparative analysis of the known planning algorithms used in modern operating systems, and evaluated the possibilities of their implementation in the hardware task manager. The study found that the hardware implementation of the scheduling and dispatching algorithms speeds up the task selection significantly from the list of ready-to-run to provide processor time to it as compared to the software implementation of the same algorithms within the operating system scheduler. They also found out that the principles of the device organization directly affect its speed. The organization of resources, and not their volume, determines the possibility of the system speed increase. Thus, they made conclusions on the work done.