Eliminating receive livelock in an interrupt-driven kernel
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
MultiView and Millipage — fine-grain sharing in page-based DSMs
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Formal requirements for virtualizable third generation architectures
Communications of the ACM
HIP: hybrid interrupt-polling for the network interface
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
Proceedings of the General Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition
Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition
Xen and the art of virtualization
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Distributed caching with memcached
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Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages
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Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/USENIX international conference on Virtual execution environments
Intel Virtualization Technology
Computer
System noise, OS clock ticks, and fine-grained parallel applications
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Supercomputing
Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 (Pro-Developer)
A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Unmodified device driver reuse and improved system dependability via virtual machines
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
High performance VMM-bypass I/O in virtual machines
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
ALS '01 Proceedings of the 5th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 5
High performance and scalable I/O virtualization via self-virtualized devices
Proceedings of the 16th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors
HPCA '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
Accelerating two-dimensional page walks for virtualized systems
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
virtio: towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Research and developments in the Linux kernel
Bridging the gap between software and hardware techniques for I/O virtualization
ATC'08 USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference on Annual Technical Conference
Software techniques to improve virtualized I/O performance on multi-core systems
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization
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NoHype: virtualized cloud infrastructure without the virtualization
Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
SR-IOV networking in Xen: architecture, design and implementation
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The turtles project: design and implementation of nested virtualization
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Minimal-overhead virtualization of a large scale supercomputer
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HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on Hot topics in operating systems
SplitX: split guest/hypervisor execution on multi-core
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vIC: interrupt coalescing for virtual machine storage device IO
USENIXATC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
vIOMMU: efficient IOMMU emulation
USENIXATC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
Eliminating the hypervisor attack surface for a more secure cloud
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
CLUSTER '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
Adding advanced storage controller functionality via low-overhead virtualization
FAST'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
Adding advanced storage controller functionality via low-overhead virtualization
FAST'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
Software techniques for avoiding hardware virtualization exits
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
Towards exitless and efficient paravirtual I/O
Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference
Reliable device sharing mechanisms for Dual-OS embedded trusted computing
TRUST'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing
Virtualizing HPC applications using modern hypervisors
Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Cloud services, federation, and the 8th open cirrus summit
Performance analysis of HPC applications in the cloud
Future Generation Computer Systems
A case for dual stack virtualization: consolidating HPC and commodity applications in the cloud
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Fine-grained I/O fairness analysis in virtualized environments
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium
Towards verifiable resource accounting for outsourced computation
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Streaming as a hypervisor service
Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
VIDAS: object-based virtualized data sharing for high performance storage I/O
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Scientific cloud computing
Onion and pizza: new disk partitioning schemes for virtualization systems
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
The nonkernel: a kernel designed for the cloud
Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems
FasTrak: enabling express lanes in multi-tenant data centers
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Efficient and scalable paravirtual I/O system
USENIX ATC'13 Proceedings of the 2013 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
vTurbo: accelerating virtual machine I/O processing using designated turbo-sliced core
USENIX ATC'13 Proceedings of the 2013 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
Speeding up packet I/O in virtual machines
ANCS '13 Proceedings of the ninth ACM/IEEE symposium on Architectures for networking and communications systems
I/o paravirtualization at the device file boundary
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Delegating OpenGL commands to host for hardware support in virtualized environments
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
A virtualized separation kernel for mixed criticality systems
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
MultiLanes: providing virtualized storage for OS-level virtualization on many cores
FAST'14 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
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Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing them to communicate with I/O devices without host involvement. But even with device assignment, guests are still unable to approach bare-metal performance, because the host intercepts all interrupts, including those interrupts generated by assigned devices to signal to guests the completion of their I/O requests. The host involvement induces multiple unwarranted guest/host context switches, which significantly hamper the performance of I/O intensive workloads. To solve this problem, we present ELI (ExitLess Interrupts), a software-only approach for handling interrupts within guest virtual machines directly and securely. By removing the host from the interrupt handling path, ELI manages to improve the throughput and latency of unmodified, untrusted guests by 1.3x-1.6x, allowing them to reach 97%-100% of bare-metal performance even for the most demanding I/O-intensive workloads.