Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Xiaokang Hu

Jian Li

Haibing Guan

Ruhui Ma

Wang Zhang

A request-response based paravirtualized I/O system and method relating to the fields of virtualization and cloud computing includes a request-response application, a front-end drive module and a back-end drive module. The front-end drive module and the back-end drive module interact by means of a transmit queue and a receive queue. The request-response application generates an I/O request, and the front-end drive module writes the I/O request into the transmit queue. The system has two operating modes: a notification mode and a polling mode. The system operates by default in the notification mode. When the request-response application issues a connection establishment or service request, the system switches to the polling mode. This system and method introduce an optimistic polling mechanism, combine the advantages of the notification mode and the polling mode, reduce the number of VM exits and decrease wasting of computing resources, thus improving data path performance.

Request-response based paravirtualized I/O system and method

The present invention finds and defines a problem which possibly exists in an interrupt remapping mechanism under a virtual symmetric multiprocessing environment, i.e., a problem of Interruptability Holder Preemption (IHP). This problem causes the interrupt remapping mechanism to fail and reduces I/O performance of virtual machines. In order to solve the IHP problem, the present invention provides a proactive VCPU comprehensive scheduling method based on interruptability holder information. This method is based on Kernel-Based Virtual Machines (KVMs) which are widely used at present and paravirtualization network models thereof. By globally controlling and analyzing a running state of an interruptability holder and simultaneously considering global scheduling fairness of a system, a VCPU comprehensive scheduling method is established, which can effectively eliminate the IHP problem and obviously improve the I/O performance of the virtual machines.

Comprehensive scheduling method and device for problem of interruptability holder preemption

The present invention provides an adaptive computing resource allocation approach for virtual network functions, including the following two steps: Step 1: predicting VNFs' real-time computing resource requirements; Step 1.1: offline profiling different types of VNFs, to obtain a parameter relation between the required amount of computing resources and the ingress packet rate; Step 1.2: online monitoring the network traffic information of each VNF, and predicting VNFs' required amount of computing resources with combination of the parameters in Step 1.1; Step 2: reallocating computing resources based on VNFs' resource requirements. The computing resource allocation approach includes a direct allocation approach and an incremental approach. The adaptive computing resource allocation approach for virtual network functions of the present invention allocates computing resources based on VNFs' actual requirements, and remedies performance bottlenecks caused by fair allocation.

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