glossary.tex

% GLOSSARIES
\newglossaryentry{preemption}
{
    name=preemption,
    description={Interrupting an already running task to execute another task}
}
\newglossaryentry{task}
{
    name=task,
    description={A unit of work executed by the processor}
}
\newglossaryentry{deadline}
{
    name=deadline,
    description={The time (relative or absolute) a task needs to finish execution before}
}
\newglossaryentry{responsetime}
{
    name=response time,
    description={The time it takes from when a task is scheduled until it has finished
    execution, including preemptions}
}
\newglossaryentry{scheduling}
{
    name=scheduling,
    description={The act of assigning processing time to tasks in an orderly fashion}
}
\newglossaryentry{schedulable}
{
    name=schedulable,
    description={A system is schedulable if all tasks running are meeting their
    deadlines and they are not utilizing more than 100\% of the processing time
    at any point}
}
\newglossaryentry{schedulability analysis}
{
    name=schedulability analysis,
    description={The act of verifying if the system is schedulable or not}
}

\newglossaryentry{et}
{
    name=ET,
    description={Execution time. The time it takes for a task to finish its execution
    without any preemptions}
}
\newglossaryentry{wcet}
{
    name=WCET,
    description={Worst-case execution time. The maximum possible time it will
    take a task to finish execution without any preemptions}
}
\newglossaryentry{wcrt}
{
    name=WCRT,
    description={Worst-case response time. Similar to WCET but including possible
    preemptions}
}
\newglossaryentry{context switch}
{
    name=context switch,
    description={Changing the execution from a running task to a new task}
}
\newglossaryentry{priority inversion}
{
    name=priority inversion,
    description={A higher priority task is unable to continue execution because
    it is waiting for a lower priority task to finish its execution}
}
\newglossaryentry{critical section}
{
    name=priority inversion,
    description={A section where a shared resource is subjected to mutual exclusion.
    I.e.\ it is claimed temporarily by a task and no other tasks are allowed to claim
    it until the claimant releases its claim}
}
\newglossaryentry{blocking}
{
    name=blocking,
    description={A task waiting to claim a resource that is currently claimed
    by another task is \emph{blocked}}
}
\newglossaryentry{inter-arrival-time}
{
    name=inter-arrival time,
    description={How frequent an aperiodic task is expected to be executed}
}
\newglossaryentry{mcu}
{
    name=MCU,
    description={Short for \emph{Microcontroller unit}}
}
\newglossaryentry{dwarf}
{
    name=DWARF,
    description={Debugging format standard}
}
\newglossaryentry{ir}
{
    name=IR,
    description={Intermediate representation}
}