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Zweilous: A Decoupled and Flexible Memory Management Framework
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Currently, with the booming growth of cloud computing, workloads from broad ranges of functions and demands are crammed into a single physical machine. They lay considerable stress on the need of evolution of the operating system underneath, especially the memory subsystem. Even enhancing large pages with main memory compression is not intuitively straightforward due to rigid rules imposed by the state-of-the-art manager Buddy System from the beginning of the design. To relieve the aforementioned problems and provide broader design space for system designers, we propose Zweilous, a clean slate physical memory management framework. It is self-contained, highly decoupled, and thus can co-exist with the vanilla memory manager. Separate self-contained metadata/functions guarantee a flexible extension with little modification to current frameworks. To show it is easy to add enhanced functions that accelerate the evolution of the memory management subsystem, we implement Hzmem, a new large page memory manager redesign enhanced with the function of main memory compression. Our method achieves competitive performance compared with native and virtualized large page support, effective memory size increased and fewer impacts on other parts of the operating system.
Keywords:
Memory management
Hardware
Linux
Cloud computing
Kernel
Operating systems
memory management
memory architecture
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