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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Salim Abiezzi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jose Fonseca, London, GB;
Mark Sheldon, Fremont, CA (US);
Alan Hourihane, Flint Mountain, GB;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, techniques, and systems for dynamically allocating graphics processing units among virtual machines are provided. Example embodiments provide a dynamic GPU allocation system ('DGAS'), which enables the efficient allocation of physical GPU resources to one or more virtual machines. In one embodiment, the DGAS comprises virtualization logic running on a server computing system that computes GPU benefit factors for the virtual machines on a dynamic basis, and combines the computed GBFs with static priorities to determine a ranked ordering of virtual machines. The available GPU resources are then allocated to some subset of these ranked virtual machines as physical GPU capacity is matched with the requirements of the subset. Physical GPU resources are then allocated to the subset of virtual machines that have the highest promise of GPU utilization.