Effects of Operating System and Runtime Services on Timing Analysis

This chapter describes the effects of operating systems and runtime system services on the timing analysis of real-time systems. In most of the real-time situations described in Part 3 of this book, we have not considered the effects of the operating system or the runtime system on which the application runs. However, this underlying software can have important effects on the timing behavior of the system. It is important to be able to identify and evaluate these effects and to know when they must be included in the real-time analysis of a system.