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Table 12 Comparison of Dirty page aware VM migration approaches
From: A critical survey of live virtual machine migration techniques
Approach | Objective | Technique | Performance metrics | Hypervisor /Simulator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clark et al. [33]-2005 | Reduces the application dirty rate for prioritize the migration process | Bound the number of pre-copying rounds, based on analysis of the writable working set | Minimal effect on running services, while reducing total downtime to below discernible thresholds | XenLinux 2.4.27 |
Fei Ma et al. [111]-2010 | Avoid re-transmission of memory pages multiple times | Bitmap page in their improved pre-copy approach | Improved pre-copy approch compared to pre-copy reduce the total transferred data by 34% and total migration time by 32.5% | Xen 3.3.0 |
Akoush et al. [70]-2010 | Accurate prediction of migration performance | Implemented 2 simulation models, termed AVG and HIST, used to predict pre-copy migration performance | Predict migration times to within 90% accuracy for both synthetic and real-world benchmarks | Xen 3.3.1 |
Ibrahim et al. [112]-2011 | Study pre-copy live migration of MPI and OpenMP scientific applications | Novel KVM pre-copy algorithm with different termination criteria | Provide minimal downtime and minimal impact on end-to-end application performance | KVM 0.14.0 |
Jin et al. [113]-2011 | Designing an optimization scheme for live migration | Tries to limit the speed of changing memory through controlling the CPU scheduler of the VM monitor | Can reduce up to 88% of application downtime | Xen 3.1.0 |
Zaw and Thein [114]-2012 | Reducing the amount of transferred data | Framework that includes pre-processing phase in traditional pre-copy live migration | Reduce total data transferred up to 23.67% and total migration time on average by 11.45%, with respect to traditional pre-copy migration | Xen 5.6.0 |
Yong et al. [115]-2013 | Predict the dirty pages for performance improvement | Novel Context Based Prediction algorithm | Shorten total migration time, downtime and total pages transferred significantly | KVM 0.14.0 |
Mohan and Shine [116]-2013 | Reduce the migration time | Avoid dirty page retransmission by sending the log records of modifications | Downtime and the migration time overheads are reduced | Real cloud setup |
Nathan et al. [29]-2013 | Avoid aggressive pre-copy termination | Adaptive live migration and non-adaptive | Reduced network traffic for migration reduced by 14-93% and migration time reduced by 34-87% | Xen 4.0.1 |
Yin et al. [53]-2014 | Limiting the page transfer attempts | Three-Stage memory transfer approach | Reduce total migration time, total pages transferred and useful for automatic load balancing | Xen 4.1.4 |
Zang et al. [117]-2014 | Find the appropriate bandwidth that guarantee the total migration time and downtime | Theoretically determine the proper bandwidth to guarantee the total migration time and downtime | Guarantee the expected total migration time and downtime | Xen 3.4.3 |
Desai and Patel [118]-2016 | Improve the total migration time and total downtime | Modifying existing pre-copy algorithm handle both low and high dirty page rate and use CBC algorithm | Reduces migration time and total downtime | CloudSim |