NDLI: Efficient multiprogramming resource allocation and accounting

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Hamlet, R. G.
Abstract	Although sometimes thought of as only a component of time-sharing operation, multiprogramming can involve broader questions of resource allocation, since fairness is not required to meet a response criterion. In a multiprogrammed system, it may serve maximal resource use to be unfair, for example by holding an input/output channel idle for a program while it completes a small amount of processor usage, enabling further use of the channel. Several applications of this principle are given, and it is suggested that a multiprogramming executive might dynamically adjust its allocation algorithms to gain efficiency.Allocation of resources is closely connected to accounting for those resources, raising the problems of repeatability, minimal uncharged overhead, and relative weighting of charges for dependent resources. Since weightings may depend on allocation algorithms, these are not arbitrary accounting parameters. Often the only repeatable accounting is one which omits an extensive overhead; this overhead can be multiple-charged to all programs which benefit from it, so that in the worst case the overhead will be paid, and should multiprogramming prove efficient, overcharges will result.Multiprogramming turns on allocation of the memory resource essential to control of other resources. The general suggestions for allocation and accounting are applied to this question, and some details provided for the case of a monitor which controls a virtual-memory machine.
Starting Page	337
Ending Page	343
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00010782 15577317
DOI	10.1145/362248.362252
Journal	Communications of the ACM (CACM)
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2005-08-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Executive Monitor Efficiency Resource accounting Resource allocation Multiprogramming
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Computer Science

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