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Measuring CPU Overhead for I/O Processing in the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor
Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) are gaining popularity in enterprise environments as a software-based solution for building shared hardware infrastructures via virtualization. In this work, using the Xen VMM, we present a light weight monitoring system for measuring the CPU usage of different virtual machines including the CPU overhead in the device driver domain caused by I/O processing on behalf of a particular virtual machine. Our performance study attempts to quantify and analyze this overhead for a set of I/O intensive workloads.
BibTeX
@inproceedings {269401,
author = {Ludmila Cherkasova and Rob Gardner},
title = {Measuring {CPU} Overhead for {I/O} Processing in the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor},
booktitle = {2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 05)},
year = {2005},
address = {Anaheim, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/2005-usenix-annual-technical-conference/measuring-cpu-overhead-io-processing-xen-virtual},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}
author = {Ludmila Cherkasova and Rob Gardner},
title = {Measuring {CPU} Overhead for {I/O} Processing in the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor},
booktitle = {2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 05)},
year = {2005},
address = {Anaheim, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/2005-usenix-annual-technical-conference/measuring-cpu-overhead-io-processing-xen-virtual},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}