Optimizing Xen hypervisor by using lock-aware scheduling

Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing and 2nd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, CGC/SCA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 31-38

  Zhong, Alin ^a   Jin, Hai ^a   Wu, Song ^a   Shi, Xuanhua ^a   Gen, Wei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

lock aware; performance; scheduling; synchronization; virtualization

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; GUEST OPERATING SYSTEMS; HYPERVISOR; LOCK-AWARE; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; POWER SAVINGS; RESEARCH ISSUES; SCHEDULING FAIRNESS; SCHEDULING MECHANISM; SPINLOCK; SYSTEM SOFTWARES; SYSTEM VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SYNCHRONIZATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84874602411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGC.2012.115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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