Network I/O fairness in virtual machines

Muhammad Bilal Anwer; Ankur Nayak; Nick Feamster; Ling Liu

doi:10.1145/1851399.1851412

Network I/O fairness in virtual machines

Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Ankur Nayak, Nick Feamster, Ling Liu

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Abstract

We present a mechanism for achieving network I/O fairness in virtual machines, by applying flexible rate limiting mechanisms directly to virtual network interfaces. Conventional approaches achieve this fairness by implementing rate limiting either in the virtual machine monitor or hypervisor, which generates considerable CPU interrupt and instruction overhead for forwarding packets. In contrast, our design pushes per-VM rate limiting as close as possible to the physical hardware themselves, effectively implementing per-virtual interface rate limiting in hardware. We show that this design reduces CPU overhead (both interrupts and instructions) by an order of magnitude. Our design can be applied either to virtual servers for cloud-based services, or to virtual routers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010
Pages	73-80
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1851399.1851412
State	Published - 2010
Event	2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010 - New Delhi, India Duration: Sep 3 2010 → Sep 3 2010

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Name	Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010

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Conference	2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010
Country/Territory	India
City	New Delhi
Period	9/3/10 → 9/3/10

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Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture

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NetFPGA
network virtualization
xen

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Anwer, M. B., Nayak, A., Feamster, N., & Liu, L. (2010). Network I/O fairness in virtual machines. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010 (pp. 73-80). (Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010). https://doi.org/10.1145/1851399.1851412

Anwer, Muhammad Bilal ; Nayak, Ankur ; Feamster, Nick et al. / Network I/O fairness in virtual machines. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010. 2010. pp. 73-80 (Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010).

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Anwer, MB, Nayak, A, Feamster, N & Liu, L 2010, Network I/O fairness in virtual machines. in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010, pp. 73-80, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010, New Delhi, India, 9/3/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1851399.1851412

Network I/O fairness in virtual machines. / Anwer, Muhammad Bilal; Nayak, Ankur; Feamster, Nick et al.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010. 2010. p. 73-80 (Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010).

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Anwer MB, Nayak A, Feamster N, Liu L. Network I/O fairness in virtual machines. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010. 2010. p. 73-80. (Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010). doi: 10.1145/1851399.1851412

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