Abstract
Title:
A resource management framework for priority-based physical-memory allocationAuthors:
Kingsley Cheung and Gernot Heiser School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales,
Sydney 2052, Australia
Abstract:
Most multitasking operating systems support scheduling priorities in order to ensure that processor time is allocated to important or time-critical processes in preference to less important ones. Ideally this would prevent a low-priority process from slowing the execution of a high-priority one. In practice, strict prioritisation is undermined by a lack of suitable allocation policy for resources other than CPU time. For example, a low priority process may degrade the execution speed of a high-priority process by competing with it for physical memory. We present the design of a flexible resource management framework which prioritises memory allocation, and examine a prototype implementation for the Mungi single-address-space operating system.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{Cheung_Heiser_02,
author = {Kingsley Cheung and Gernot Heiser},
title = {A Resource Management Framework for Priority-Based Physical-Memory Allocation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference},
year = {2002},
month = {Jan},
editor = {J Morris and F Lai},
address = {Monash University, Melbourne, Australia}
}