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Task-Based Boost Mechanism in Credit Scheduler

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Kisu Kim,

Myungjoon Shon,

Joonhyouk Jang,

Jiman HongAuthors Info & Claims

RACS '16: Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems

Pages 243 - 244

https://doi.org/10.1145/2987386.2987412

Published: 11 October 2016 Publication History

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A major challenge in a virtual machine scheduler is the I/O performance of a network-based or a disk-based application running on a virtual machine. The existing virtual machine scheduler does not achieve good I/O performance when many active virtual CPUs exist. In this study, we propose a novel scheme that uses a modified Credit scheduler for I/O-intensive virtual machines in order to achieve good I/O performance. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme improves the I/O performance of a virtual machine scheduler by using the proposed boost algorithm instead of the original boost algorithm in Credit scheduler.

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Task-Based Boost Mechanism in Credit Scheduler
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management

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RACS '16: Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems

October 2016

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ISBN:9781450344555

DOI:10.1145/2987386

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