Software techniques to improve virtualized I/O performance on multi-core systems

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, ANCS '08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-170

  Liao, Guangdeng ^a   Guo, Danhua ^a   Bhuyan, Laxmi ^a   King, Steve R ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

10GE; Multi core; Virtualization; VMM scheduler; Xen

Indexed keywords

10GE; MULTI-CORE; VIRTUALIZATION; VMM SCHEDULER; XEN;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST REDUCTION; ETHERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 70350690721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1477942.1477971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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