Paper Info
Title
A Hypervisor for MIPS-Based Architecture Processors - A Case Study in Loongson Processors.
Abstract
Loongson is a family of general purpose processors based on MIPS architecture designed and manufactured in Mainland China. With the maturity of Loongson CPUs, applications are widely available with the increasing development of software tools and hardware platforms by research teams in academia and industry. In recent years, products based on Loongson have been mainly used in education, personal computers and server systems. Meanwhile, it is not yet popularly used in industrial real-time control fields, so such products have large room and potential to further development and deployment. The M-Hypervisor discussed in this paper is a real-time hypervisor designed for MIPS architecture and implemented in Loongson2F processor. It is based on the management program of para-virtualization whilst multiple partitions are scheduled to execute according to their priorities. The design and implementation of M-Hypervisor is discussed, along with details as timer, interrupts, memory management, partition loading and scheduling, to enrich real-time virtualized applications for MIPS architecture. Evaluation results show the performance and viability of proposed design, being promising to new deployments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HPCC.and.EUC.2013.124
HPCC/EUC
Keywords
Field
DocType
switches,hardware,linux,kernel,real time systems
Software deployment,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Visor,Real-time Control System,Hypervisor,Real-time computing,Memory management,Ubiquitous computing,Timer,Distributed computing,Operating system,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
12
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Zhou1206.92
Zhu Ai220.38
Jiaming Yang320.72
Yucong Chen420.38
Jun Li526646.20
Qingguo Zhou610329.48
Kuan-ching Li7933122.44