Virtual I/O scheduler: A scheduler of schedulers for performance virtualization

VEE'07: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 105-115

  Seelam, Seetharami R ^a   Teller, Patricia J ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness; I O scheduler; Performance isolation; Predictable performance; Virtual I O

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; SCHEDULING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

PERFORMANCE ISOLATION; PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE; VIRTUALIZED STORAGE SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 35448966605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1254810.1254826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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