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OS^v: optimizing the operating system for virtual machines

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Vlad ZolotarovAuthors Info & Claims

USENIX ATC'14: Proceedings of the 2014 USENIX conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Pages 61 - 72

Published: 19 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Virtual machines in the cloud typically run existing general-purpose operating systems such as Linux. We notice that the cloud's hypervisor already provides some features, such as isolation and hardware abstraction, which are duplicated by traditional operating systems, and that this duplication comes at a cost.

We present the design and implementation of OS^v, a new guest operating system designed specifically for running a single application on a virtual machine in the cloud. It addresses the duplication issues by using a low-overhead library-OS-like design. It runs existing applications written for Linux, as well as new applications written for OS^v. We demonstrate that OS^v is able to efficiently run a variety of existing applications. We demonstrate its sub-second boot time, small OS image and how it makes more memory available to the application. For unmodified network-intensive applications, we demonstrate up to 25% increase in throughput and 47% decrease in latency. By using non-POSIX network APIs, we can further improve performance and demonstrate a 290% increase in Memcached throughput.

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USENIX ATC'14: Proceedings of the 2014 USENIX conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference

June 2014

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ISBN:9781931971102

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Carnegie Mellon University
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Nickolai Zeldovich
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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