An Interrupt Coalescence Method for Improving Performance of Asynchronous Serial Communication

Autor: Byoung Kuk Kim, Geun Duk Park, Sam Kweon Oh
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society. 12:1380-1386
ISSN: 1975-4701
Popis: The request of interrupt accompanies a context switching. If the interrupt is frequently requested, this overhead of context switching can reduce seriously the performance of embedded systems. In order to reduce processing overhead due to frequently requested communication interrupts at Asynchronous Serial Communication, this paper introduces the method of Expanded Asynchronous Serial Communication with the Interrupt Coalescence(IC) that accumulates a fixed number of interrupts and processes them in one time. we implement the existing Asynchronous Serial Communication that requests communication interrupts by one byte at an LN2440SBC embedded board with a uC/OS-II and compare interrupt processing time for the performance evaluation about proposed method. As a result, the communication interrupt processing time of proposed method appears in case of low speed(9,600 bps), the decline of an average 25.18% at transmission, the decline of an average 41.47% at reception. and in case of hight speed(115,200 bps), the decline of an average 16.67% at transmission, the decline of an average 25.61% at reception.
Databáze: OpenAIRE