Title :
Performance Overhead of Xen on Linux 3.13 on ARM Cortex-A7
Author :
Xiaoli Gong ; Qi Du ; Xu Li ; Jin Zhang ; Ye Lu
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Inf. Security Dept., Coll. of Comput. & Control Eng., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
A number of simple performance measurements on disk speed, CPU, memory and network throughput were done on a dual ARM Cortex-A7 machine running Linux inside a Xen virtual machine that communicate with the outside through fronted-driver and backend-driver. The average performance overhead of Xen virtual machine is between 3 and 7 percent when the host is lightly loaded (running only the system software and the necessary xenstored demon and so on).
Keywords :
Linux; performance evaluation; virtual machines; virtualisation; CPU performance; Linux 3.13; Xen virtual machine performance overhead; back end-driver; disk speed performance; dual ARM Cortex-A7 machine; front end-driver; memory performance; network throughput; Kernel; Linux; Program processors; Throughput; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Virtualization; ARM Cortex-A7; Xen; performance; virtualization;
Conference_Titel :
P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2014 Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangdong
DOI :
10.1109/3PGCIC.2014.92
