• DocumentCode
    260982
  • Title

    Development of efficient VCPU pinning mechanism in Xen

  • Author

    Kyung Yoon Min ; Seung Hun Kim ; Won Woo Ro

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    15-18 Jan. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Most of the schedulers in the virtualization platforms provide throughput-oriented policy. However, such throughput-oriented policy has disadvantage in performance for multi-threaded applications which require synchronization among the threads or CPU-intensive programs. To solve this problem, we propose dynamic VCPU pinning mechanism that fixes VCPU to specific physical CPU considering the program characteristics. We demonstrate that the proposed method guarantees improved performance compared to the default VCPU assigning mechanism of credit scheduler in Xen hypervisor.
  • Keywords
    microprocessor chips; multi-threading; scheduling; virtualisation; CPU intensive programs; VCPU pinning mechanism; Xen hypervisor; multithreaded applications; program characteristics; virtualization platforms; Benchmark testing; Dynamic scheduling; Instruction sets; Multicore processing; Resource management; Synchronization; Virtual machining; Virtualization; Xen; credit scheduler;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics, Information and Communications (ICEIC), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kota Kinabalu
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ELINFOCOM.2014.6914416
  • Filename
    6914416