Application-Level Scheduling Using AOP

  • Authors:

  • Kenichi Kourai;Hideaki Hibino;Shigeru Chiba

  • Affiliations:

  • Tokyo Institute of Technology,;Tokyo Institute of Technology,;Tokyo Institute of Technology,

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Achieving sufficient execution performance is a challenging goal of software development. Unfortunately, violating performance requirements is often revealed at a late stage of the development. Fixing a performance problem at such a late stage is difficult in terms of cost and time. To solve this problem, this paper presents QoSWeaver , which is a tool suite for developing application-level scheduling using aspects. QoSWeaver weaves scheduling code written in an aspect into web application code. The scheduling code gets an application thread to voluntarily yield its execution to implement a custom scheduling policy. The idea of scheduling at the application level is not new, but aspect-oriented programming (AOP) makes it more realistic by separation of scheduling code. For fine-grained scheduling, QoSWeaver provides a profile-based pointcut generator , which automatically generates appropriate pointcuts. To investigate the ability of QoSWeaver for implementing practical scheduling policies, we used QoSWeaver for tuning the performance of a river monitoring system named Kasendas , which is a web application system. For reliable examination, Kasendas was originally developed by an outside corporation and then it was tuned by the authors with QoSWeaver. The authors could successfully improve the performance of Kasendas under heavy workload. The cost of the performance tuning was reasonably small. Furthermore, our approach achieved better performance than other techniques such as admission control and priority scheduling provided by the JVM or Linux. We could implement various policies such as deadlock-aware or adaptive scheduling.