Task-aware virtual machine scheduling for I/O performance

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 101-110

  Kim, Hwanju ^a   Lim, Hyeontaek ^a   Jeong, Jinkyu ^a   JoH , Heeseung ^a   Lee, Joowon ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Inference; Scheduling; Virtual machine; Virtualization; Xen

Indexed keywords

BOOSTING MECHANISM; BOUNDNESS; CLOUD COMPUTING; CREDIT SCHEDULER; I/O PERFORMANCE; INFERENCE; INFERENCE TECHNIQUES; REALISTIC APPLICATIONS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZATION LAYERS; XEN;

MACHINERY; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 67650046427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508293.1508308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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