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Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;

Inventors:

Yinan Jiang, Markham, CA;

Jeffrey G. Cheng, Markham, CA;

Assignee:

ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC, Markham, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processing system identifies a subset of pages of memory allocated to a source guest virtual machine (VM) running at a first graphics processing unit (GPU) that were modified by the source guest VM and transferring only the subset to a destination guest VM running at a second GPU when performing a live migration from the source guest VM to the destination guest VM. The first GPU maintains a page table of system memory addresses or frame buffer addresses allocated to and accessed by the source guest VM during a session, including an indication of whether the data was modified. Based on the page table information, the processing system identifies and transfers only the modified pages from the source guest VM to the destination guest VM, thereby reducing the time and bandwidth used for migration.


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