An energy–efficient virtual machine scheduler based on CPU share–reclaiming policy. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xilong, Qu; Peng, Xiao
• Is Part Of: International journal of grid and utility computing. Volume 6:Number 2(2015)
• Page Start: 113
• Page End: 120
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: cloud computing -- energy efficiency -- resource virtualisation -- context switch -- task scheduling -- virtual machine scheduling -- CPU share reclaiming policy; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 004.605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-847X

Abstract

With the development of cloud computing, resource virtualisation technology has been widely applied for deploying large–scale IT–infrastructures in many high–performance data centres. However, using virtualisation technology will also lead to some extra performance costs, especially when the cloud system is in the presence of mixed–workloads. In this paper, we present a novel virtual machine scheduling approach, namely share–reclaiming policy, in which the scheduler allows virtual machines to obtain extra CPU shares if they were frequently blocked by I/O interrupted recently. By this policy, short–term I/O–intensive tasks will have more chances of being scheduled so as to compensate their performance losses caused by I/O operations. Extensive experiments are conducted by using various benchmarks; the results show that the proposed policy outperforms existing scheduling algorithm in the terms of energy–efficiency, especially when the virtualised system is in the presence of intensive mixed–workloads.