Flexible Device Sharing in PCIe Clusters using Device Lending
| Autor: | Håkon Kvale Stensland, Carsten Griwodz, Jonas Markussen, Friedrich Seifert, Lars Bjørlykke Kristiansen, Pål Halvorsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Computer science Interoperability Linux kernel Hypervisor 02 engineering and technology Virtualization computer.software_genre 01 natural sciences 020202 computer hardware & architecture Shared resource Data access Virtual machine 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Operating system computer PCI Express |
| Zdroj: | ICPP Workshops |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3229710.3229759 |
| Popis: | Processing workloads may have very high IO demands, exceeding the capabilities provided by resource virtualization and requiring direct access to the physical hardware. For computers that are interconnected in PCI Express (PCIe) networks, we have previously proposed Device Lending as a solution for assigning devices to remote hosts. In this paper, we explain how we have extended our implementation with support for the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. Using our extended Device Lending, it becomes possible to dynamically "pass through" physical remote devices to VM guests while still retaining the flexibility of virtualization, something that previously required extensive facilitation in both hypervisor and device drivers in the form of paravirtualization.We have also improved our original implementation with support for interoperability between remote devices. We show that it is possible to use multiple devices residing in different hosts, while still achieving the same bandwidth and latency as native PCIe, and without requiring any additional support in device drivers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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