Linux task scheduler for reconfigurable hardware accelerators

This article proposes a modification of the standard Linux scheduler for a support of a reconfigurable heterogeneous multiprocessor system. The standard Linux scheduler is limited to a homogeneous multiprocessor system only. The addition of the processing core with a different feature requires modification of a decision algorithm of the scheduler as a heterogeneous task cannot be executed on any processing core. We describe dependencies between implemented processing cores and these heterogeneous software tasks.