Abstract

Virtualization offers significant benefits, such as better isolation and security for mobile systems. However, the limited amount of memory and virtualization’s memory-demanding nature make it challenging to virtualize mobile systems efficiently. In this paper, we utilize morphable resistive memories to design a high-performance mobile system with an extensible memory space. With morphable resistive memories, a simple and effective page management technique, Balloonfish, is proposed to convert the memory cell state between multilevel and single-level for achieving a balance between performance and memory space. First, an application-specific page allocation is proposed for managing morphable resistive memories in virtualized mobile systems. Besides, we use a balloon-style algorithm to balance memory allocation among multiple virtual machines. Our evaluation based on the Samsung Exynos 5250 system-on-chip with various real Android applications shows that our system achieves 28.63% performance improvement compared with the baseline scheme.

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