I’m currently writing a new scheduler, credit2, which I mean to be the general-purpose scheduler for the next generation of Xen, lasting at least several years before needing a significant overhaul. But there are some problems with writing a scheduler: * They’re used in every workload that uses a
George Dunlap
I received my PhD from the University of Michigan in December 2006. I joined XenSource in May of 2006. I've been working on analyzing performance in the Xen hypervisor. I'm currently working on a
Measuring the effectiveness of a scheduler
Jul
08
2010
Xen 3.3 Feature: Shadow 3
Aug
27
2008
Shadow 3 is the next step in the evolution of the shadow pagetable code. By making the shadow pagetables behave more like a TLB, we take advantage of guest operating system TLB behavior to reduce and coalesce the number of guest pagetable changes that the hypervisor has to translate