Checkpointing virtual machines against transient errors

Long Wang; Zbigniew Kalbarczyk; Ravishankar K. Iyer; Arun Iyengar

doi:10.1109/IOLTS.2010.5560226

Checkpointing virtual machines against transient errors

Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Arun Iyengar

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Abstract

This paper proposes VM-μCheckpoint, a lightweight software mechanism for high-frequency checkpointing and rapid recovery of virtual machines. VM-μCheckpoint minimizes checkpoint overhead and speeds up recovery by saving incremental checkpoints in volatile memory and by employing copy-on-write, dirty-page prediction, and in-place recovery. In our approach, knowledge of fault/error latency is used to explicitly address checkpoint corruption, a critical problem, especially when checkpoint frequency is high. We designed and implemented VM-μCheckpoint in the Xen VMM. The evaluation results demonstrate that VM-μCheckpoint incurs an average of 6.3% execution-time overhead for 50ms checkpoint intervals when executing the SPEC CINT 2006 benchmark.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 16th International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010
Pages	97-102
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS.2010.5560226
State	Published - 2010
Event	16th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010 - Corfu Island, Greece Duration: Jul 5 2010 → Jul 7 2010

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Other	16th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Corfu Island
Period	7/5/10 → 7/7/10

Keywords

Checkpoint
Checkpoint corruption
Error latency
High frequency
Virtual machine

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Checkpointing virtual machines against transient errors. / Wang, Long; Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ; Iyer, Ravishankar K. et al.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 16th International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010. 2010. p. 97-102 5560226 (Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 16th International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010).

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Wang, L, Kalbarczyk, Z , Iyer, RK & Iyengar, A 2010, Checkpointing virtual machines against transient errors. in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 16th International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010., 5560226, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 16th International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010, pp. 97-102, 16th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2010, Corfu Island, Greece, 7/5/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS.2010.5560226

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