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Dynamic binary translation system must perform an address translation for every execution of indirect branch instructions. The procedure to convert Source binary Program Counter (SPC) address to Translated Program Counter (TPC) address always takes more ...

Efficiently executing sequential legacy binaries on chip multi-processors (CMPs) composed of many, small cores is one of today's most pressing problems. Single-threaded execution is a suboptimal option due to CMPs' lower single-core performance, while ...

Most dynamic binary translators (DBT) and optimizers (DBO) target binary traces, i.e. frequently executed paths, as code regions to be translated and optimized. Code region formation is the most important first step in all DBTs and DBOs. The quality of ...

Superblock compilation techniques such as control flow graph (CFG) or trace compilation have become a widely adopted approach to increase the performance of dynamically compiling virtual machines even further. While this was shown to be successful for ...

Live migration of virtual machines (VM) across distinct physical hosts is an important feature of virtualization technology for maintenance, load-balancing and energy reduction, especially so for data centers operators and cluster service providers. ...

Memory virtualization abstracts a physical machine's memory resource and presents to the virtual machines running on it a piece of physical memory that could be shared, compressed and moved. To optimize the memory resource utilization by fully ...

Live virtual machine migration is a technique often used to migrate an entire OS with running applications in a non-disruptive fashion. Prior works concerned with one-to-one live migration with many techniques have been proposed such as pre-copy, post-...

Virtual machine (VM) live storage migration techniques significantly increase the mobility and manageability of virtual machines in the era of cloud computing. On the other hand, as solid state drives (SSDs) become increasingly popular in data centers, ...

Live VM migration is one of the major primitive operations to manage virtualized cloud platforms. Such operation is usually mission-critical and disruptive to the running services, and thus should be completed as fast as possible. Unfortunately, with ...

This paper presents EXTERIOR, a dual-VM architecture based external shell that can be used for trusted, timely out-of-VM management of guest-OS such as introspection, configuration, and recovery. Inspired by recent advances in virtual machine ...

Traditional Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) virtualizes some devices and instructions, which induces performance overhead to guest operating systems. Furthermore, the virtualization contributes a large amount of codes to VMM, which makes a VMM prone to ...

Operating system (OS) reboots are an essential part of updating kernels and applications on laptops and desktop PCs. Long downtime during OS reboots severely disrupts users' computational activities. This long disruption discourages the users from ...

Phase selection is the process of customizing the applied set of compiler optimization phases for individual functions or programs to improve performance of generated code. Researchers have recently developed novel feature-vector based heuristic ...

On-stack replacement (OSR) is a technique that allows a virtual machine to interrupt running code during the execution of a function/method, to re-optimize the function on-the-fly using an optimizing JIT compiler, and then to resume the interrupted ...

This paper proposes a collaborative approach in which applications can provide guidance to the operating system regarding allocation and recycling of physical memory. The operating system incorporates this guidance to decide which physical page should ...

Outsourced computation services should ideally only charge customers for the resources used by their applications. Unfortunately, no verifiable basis for service providers and customers to reconcile resource accounting exists today. This leads to ...

Virtualization technology is being widely adopted by servers and data centers in the cloud computing era to improve resource utilization and energy efficiency. Nevertheless, the heterogeneous memory demands from multiple virtual machines (VM) make it ...

When executing inside a virtual machine environment, OS level synchronization primitives are faced with significant challenges due to the scheduling behavior of the underlying virtual machine monitor. Operations that are ensured to last only a short ...