Min Li

US Patent:

20140223122, Aug 7, 2014

Filed:

Feb 6, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/760113

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Kavita Chavda - Roswell GA, US
Min Li - Blacksburg VA, US
Pin Zhou - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/06

US Classification:

711162

Abstract:

A method for determining that first and second virtual machines, that currently execute in first and second host computing systems, respectively, should both execute within a same host computing system. The method includes determining that the first and second virtual machines have accessed same data more often than a third and fourth virtual machines have accessed said same data. Based in part on this determination, the method includes determining that the first and second virtual machines should execute in a same host computing system having a same cache memory for both the first and second virtual machines and that the third and fourth virtual machines should execute on one or more different host computing systems than said same host computing system.