IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications (대한임베디드공학회논문지)

Institute of Embedded Engineering of Korea (대한임베디드공학회)
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Translated Block Optimization of Dynamic Binary Translator for Embedded System Virtualization

임베디드 시스템 가상화를 위한 동적 이진 변환기의 변환 블록 최적화

  • Received : 2017.03.28
  • Accepted : 2017.09.01
  • Published : 2017.12.31
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Abstract

As the use of mobile devices such as smartphones increases, there is growing interest on the benefits of virtualization in embedded systems. Full virtualization has the advantage of running the guest virtual machine without modifying the guest operating system. However, full virtualization suffers slow execution speed due to the cost of context switching between the virtual machines and the virtual machine monitor. In this paper, we propose a translated block and context switching optimization to improve the guest execution speed in the embedded system. As a result, the improved dynamic binary translator is up to 5.95 times faster than the native execution. Performance degradation is less than that of the other virtualization system.

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