Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment

By Aravind Menon, J. R. Santos, Yoshio Turner, John Janakiraman, Willy Zwaenepoel. International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, 2005

585 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Information Systems

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How researchers see this paper

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Alan L. Cox
2. Willy Zwaenepoel
3. Alexandru Iosup
4. Dick H. J. Epema
5. Scott Rixner
6. Nezih Yigitbasi
7. Diego Ongaro
8. Peifeng Yu

In Hardware and Architecture

1. Alan L. Cox
2. Scott Rixner

In Information Systems

1. Dick H. J. Epema
2. Alan L. Cox
3. Scott Rixner
4. Diego Ongaro
5. Mosharaf Chowdhury
6. Peifeng Yu

Citations in the corpus

• On the Performance Variability of Production Cloud Services (2011, background): “Recent studies using general purpose benchmarks have shown that virtualization overhead can be below 5% for computation [21] and below 15% for networking [21], [23].”
• Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen (awarded best paper) (2006, methodology): “Finally, we provide support for guest operating systems to effectively utilize advanced virtual memory features such as superpages and global page mappings.”
• Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors (2008, background): “There has also been recent work on improving other aspects of virtualized I/O performance [5, 13, 15, 14, 16, 17, 20].”
• vCUDA: GPU accelerated high performance computing in virtual machines (2009, background): “In virtual machines, world switch is an extremely expensive operation and should be avoided whenever possible [23].”