Intel Corporation

Rohan Menezes

Stephen S Chang

Nagabhushan Chitlur

Michael T Werstlein

Jonathan Lo

Mariano Aguirre

Michael Werstlein

A server having a host processor coupled to a programmable coprocessor is provided. One or more virtual machines may run on the host processor. The coprocessor may be coupled to an auxiliary memory that stores virtual machine (VM) states. During live migration, the coprocessor may determine when to move the VM states from the auxiliary memory to a remote server node. The coprocessor may include a coherent protocol home agent and state tracking circuitry configured to track data modification at a cache line granularity. Whenever a particular cache line has been modified, only the data associated with that cache line will be moved to the remote server without having to copy over the entire page, thereby substantially reducing the amount of data that needs to be transferred during migration events.

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Hillsboro, OR, United States of America

Rohan Menezes