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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
May. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Aditya Bhandari, Redmond, WA (US);
Dmitry Meshchaninov, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Shuvabrata Ganguly, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Techniques for configuring a hypervisor scheduler to make use of cache topology of processors and physical memory distances between NUMA nodes when making scheduling decisions. In the same or other embodiments the hypervisor scheduler can be configured to optimize the scheduling of latency sensitive workloads. In the same or other embodiments a hypervisor can be configured to expose a virtual cache topology to a guest operating system running in a virtual machine.