Disco: running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
My Cache or Yours? Making Storage More Exclusive
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Understanding The Linux Kernel
Understanding The Linux Kernel
Geiger: monitoring the buffer cache in a virtual machine environment
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Virtual machine memory access tracing with hypervisor exclusive cache
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Implementation of a constant-time dynamic storage allocator
Software—Practice & Experience
A Live Storage Migration Mechanism over WAN for Relocatable Virtual Machine Services on Clouds
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
On the DMA mapping problem in direct device assignment
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference
Enabling Instantaneous Relocation of Virtual Machines with a Lightweight VMM Extension
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Small is big: functionally partitioned file caching in virtualized environments
HotCloud'12 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Cloud Ccomputing
XLH: more effective memory deduplication scanners through cross-layer hints
USENIX ATC'13 Proceedings of the 2013 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
Group-based memory oversubscription for virtualized clouds
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Conceptually, fast server-side page cache storage could dramatically reduce paging I/O. In this workshop extended abstract, we speculate how such a device might be used, then show how it can be implemented virtually in a hypervisor. We then introduce hcache (pronounced "aitch-cash"), our prototype implementation built on the Xen hypervisor and utilized by slightly modified Linux paravirtualized domains. We discuss the implementation and the current status of hcache, present some performance results, compare it to related work, and conclude with some speculation of other possible uses for hcache.