{"title":"An infrastructure for multiprocessor run-time adaptation","authors":"J. Appavoo, Kevin Hui, M. Stumm, R. Wisniewski, D. D. Silva, O. Krieger, Craig A. N. Soules","doi":"10.1145/582128.582130","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Runtimeadaptationanddynamicrecon gurationallowasystemtodynamicallyswapinthemostappropriateimple-mentationofitscomp onentsbasedoncurrentorexp ecteduse,andtoselectivelyupgradecomp onentswithbug,secu-rity,orp erformance xeswithoutdown-time.Hot-swappingistheactofreplacinganactivesystemcomp onent'sim-plementationwithanewordi erentimplemenwhilemaintainingavailabilityofthecomp onent'sfunctionalit.Thispap erdescrib esamechanism tohot-swapsoftwarecom-p onentswithintheK421op eratingsystem.Wehavusedthiscapabilitytoimprovep erformanceunderaarietofconditions.K42isaresearchop eratingsystemforcache-coherentsharedmemorymultipro cessorsdesignedtoachievego o dscalabilityonawiderangeofworkloads.InK42,eachvir-tualandphysicalresource,e.g.,op en le,memoryregion,pagetable,ismanagedbyseparate, ne-granularit,ob jectinstances.Eachob jectinstancemayb ecustomized(di er-entsub-class).Thismo delprovidesthestandardsoftwareengineeringb ene ts,butmoreimp ortantly:1)allowsp er-formancecustomizationonanob ject-by-ob jectbasisand2)allows,onamultipro cessor,indep endentaccessestob edirectedtoindep endentinstancesandpro ceedinparallelthuseliminatingsharedmemoryaccessesandsynchroniza-tion,whicharefundamentalbarrierstomultipro cessorp er-formance.Anop eratingsystemisaparticularlydemandingenvi-ronmentasitneedstosatisfymultipleconcurrenclientswhoseresourcedemandsmayb eato dds.Forexample,multipleclientsmaysimultaneouslyaccessa lewithdif-ferentusagepatterns.Supp ortingmultipro cessorspresentsadditionalchallengesforop eratingsystems,andoftenimple-mentationsthatarerequiredforscalablep erformancehaveworseunipro cessorb ehavior.Toprovideb othunipro cessorandmultipro cessorcomp o-nentswithinasingleob jectmo del,K42'sob jectsareim-1http://www.research.ibm.com/K42","PeriodicalId":326554,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Self-Healing Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"37","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Workshop on Self-Healing Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/582128.582130","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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