A survey of process migration mechanisms

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan M. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia Univ., New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

We define process migration as the transfer of a sufficient amount of a process's state from one machine to another for the process to execute on the target machine.This paper surveys proposed and implemented mechanisms for process migration. We pay particular attention to the designer's goals, such as performance, load-balancing, and reliability. The effect of operating system design upon the ease of implementation is discussed in some detail; we conclude that message-passing systems simplify designs for migration.