LAOVM: Lightweight Application-Oriented Virtual Machine for Thread Migration

Author

Liao, Xiaofei ; Yue, Yifan ; Jin, Hai ; Liu, Haikun

Author_Institution

Services Comput. Technol. & Syst. Lab., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

1-3 June 2009

Firstpage

882

Lastpage

887

Abstract

This paper describes the scheme of thread migration in a language virtual machine LAOVM - lightweight application-oriented virtual machine. To maintain high portability and flexibility, thread migration is implemented at language level. To migrate process or thread in runtime in LAOVM, the following issues are addressed: (1) supporting kinds of applications implemented by different programming language; (2) enabling transparent process migration indifferent operating system; (3) implementing fine-grained mobility. Experimental results show that the downtime of thread migration is reasonably small, even the application runtime image is required for occupying massive memory blocks.

Keywords

multi-threading; operating systems (computers); virtual machines; fine-grained mobility; lightweight application-oriented virtual machine; operating system; programming language; thread migration; transparent process migration; Computer languages; Computer science; Grid computing; Information science; Kernel; Operating systems; Paper technology; Runtime; Virtual machining; Yarn; migration; thread; virtual machine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Science, 2009. ICIS 2009. Eighth IEEE/ACIS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3641-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIS.2009.204

Filename

5223129