Journal
SENSORS
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s17050968
Keywords
main memory; memory deduplication; cloud computing; virtualization; performance
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61572172, 61602137]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2016B10714]
- Changzhou Sciences and Technology Program [CE20165023, CE20160014]
- Six Talent Peaks project in Jiangsu Province [XYDXXJS-00]
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In a cloud computing environment, the number of virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical server and the number of applications running on each VM are continuously growing. This has led to an enormous increase in the demand of memory capacity and subsequent increase in the energy consumption in the cloud. Lack of enough memory has become a major bottleneck for scalability and performance of virtualization interfaces in cloud computing. To address this problem, memory deduplication techniques which reduce memory demand through page sharing are being adopted. However, such techniques suffer from overheads in terms of number of online comparisons required for the memory deduplication. In this paper, we propose a static memory deduplication (SMD) technique which can reduce memory capacity requirement and provide performance optimization in cloud computing. The main innovation of SMD is that the process of page detection is performed offline, thus potentially reducing the performance cost, especially in terms of response time. In SMD, page comparisons are restricted to the code segment, which has the highest shared content. Our experimental results show that SMD efficiently reduces memory capacity requirement and improves performance. We demonstrate that, compared to other approaches, the cost in terms of the response time is negligible.
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