Quasi-asynchronous migration: a novel migration protocol for PVM tasks

Authors:
Pei Dan;Wang Dongsheng;Zhang Youhui;Shen Meiming
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beifing 100084, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beifing 100084, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beifing 100084, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beifing 100084, P.R. China
Venue:
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Year:
1999

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Abstract

Process migration is a desirable and useful facility for the Network of Workstations (NOW). This paper presents a novel migration protocol called quasi-asynchronous migration for PVM tasks, which allows non-migrating tasks to execute during most of the time of migration. Message flushing and message delaying are the key mechanisms used in quasi-asynchronous migration. Because the protocol is implemented on top of PVM and at user-level, it is both transparent to users and portable. Both the analysis of the migration protocol and the experimental results show that quasi-asynchronous migration has lower overhead than other migration protocols.