A resource management framework for priority-based physical-memory allocation
Authors
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,
publisher = {xyz},
title = {A Resource Management Framework for Priority-Based Physical-Memory Allocation},
booktitle = {7th Asia-Pacific Comp. Syst. Arch. Conf},
author = {Kingsley Cheung and Gernot Heiser},
year = {2002},
month = {Jan},
editor = {J Morris and F Lai},
address = {Monash University, Melbourne, Australia},
pages = {xyz}
}