TY - GEN
T1 - Using context switches for VM scaling
AU - Hadley, James
AU - Roedig, Utz
AU - Elkhatib, Yehia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/1/17
Y1 - 2017/1/17
N2 - Virtualisation encourages users to procure, relin-quish and scale resources frequently. Such fluid deployments require continuous performance assessment to inform resource allocation. In current systems Tick Accounting, Load Average, and Memory Usage are used to judge system performance and to trigger resource scaling. We argue that the readily available Context Switch (CS) counter is also an effective performance indicator. We demonstrate the efficacy of CS and show that it can also be used as base for scaling decisions.
AB - Virtualisation encourages users to procure, relin-quish and scale resources frequently. Such fluid deployments require continuous performance assessment to inform resource allocation. In current systems Tick Accounting, Load Average, and Memory Usage are used to judge system performance and to trigger resource scaling. We argue that the readily available Context Switch (CS) counter is also an effective performance indicator. We demonstrate the efficacy of CS and show that it can also be used as base for scaling decisions.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85013459672
U2 - 10.1109/PCCC.2016.7820599
DO - 10.1109/PCCC.2016.7820599
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85013459672
T3 - 2016 IEEE 35th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2016
BT - 2016 IEEE 35th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 35th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2016
Y2 - 9 December 2016 through 11 December 2016
ER -