AASH: An asymmetry-aware scheduler for hypervisors

VEE 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-96

  Kazempour, Vahid ^a   Kamali, Ali ^a   Fedorova, Alexandra ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymmetric; Heterogeneous; Hypervisor; Multicore processors; Scheduling algorithms; Virtual machine monitor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING RESOURCE; EFFECTIVE MATCHING; EXECUTION TIME; FREQUENCY-SCALING; HETEROGENEOUS; HYPERVISOR; INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE; INSTRUCTION STREAMS; LOW OVERHEAD; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCES; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHYSICAL CORE; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER EFFICIENT; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77952357771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1735997.1736011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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