DocumentCode :
61413
Title :
XCollOpts: A Novel Improvement of Network Virtualizations in Xen for I/O-Latency Sensitive Applications on Multicores
Author :
Lingfang Zeng ; Yang Wang ; Dan Feng ; Kent, Kenneth B.
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Volume :
12
Issue :
2
fYear :
2015
fDate :
Jun-15
Firstpage :
163
Lastpage :
175
Abstract :
It has long been recognized that the Credit scheduler selectively favors CPU-bound applications whereas for I/O-latency sensitive workloads, such as those related to stream-based audio/video services, it only exhibits tolerable, or even worse, unacceptable performance. The reasons behind this phenomenon are the poor understanding (to some degree) of the virtual machine scheduling as well as the network I/O virtualizations. In order to address these problems and make the system more responsive to the I/O-latency sensitive applications, in this paper, we present XCollOpts which performs a collection of novel optimizations to improve the Credit scheduler and the underlying I/O virtualizations in multicore environments, each from two perspectives. To optimize the schedule, in XCollOpts, we first pinpoint the Imbalanced Multi-Boosting problem among the cores thereby minimizing the system response time by load balancing the BOOST VCPUs. Then, we describe the Premature Preemption problem and address it by monitoring the received network packets in the driver domain and deliberately preventing it from being prematurely preempted during the packet delivery. However, these optimizations on the scheduling strategies cannot be fully exploited if the performance issues of the underlying supportive communication mechanisms are not considered. To this end, we make two further optimizations for the network I/O virtualizations, namely, Multi-Tasklet Pairs and Optimized Small Data Packet. Our empirical studies show that with XCollOpts, we can significantly improve the performance of the latency-sensitive applications at a cost of relatively small system overhead.
Keywords :
device drivers; minimisation; multiprocessing systems; packet switching; resource allocation; virtual machines; virtualisation; BOOST VCPU; CPU-bound applications; I/O-latency sensitive application; XCollOpts; Xen; credit scheduler; driver domain; imbalanced multiboosting problem; load balancing; multicore environment; multitasklet pair; network I/O virtualization; packet delivery; premature preemption problem; small data packet optimisation; system response minimization; Dispatching; Load management; Multicore processing; Optimization; Time factors; Virtual machine monitors; Virtualization; Hypervisor; I/O virtualization; Load balancing; Multicore; Scheduling; hypervisor; load balancing; multicore;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1932-4537
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TNSM.2015.2432066
Filename :
7105937
Link To Document :
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