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Abstract | ||
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Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a promising I/O virtualization approach for achieving high performance in the virtualization over InfiniBand (IB) network. One challenge is related to the hardware address assignment for each virtual IB device. There are two schemes for the hardware address assignment, static assignment and dynamic assignment. Static assignment always preserves the hardware address of a virtual IB device that is attached to a VM, but the dynamic assignment does not. A drawback, however, using static assignment is that its communication will be disconnected after VM migration. In this paper, we point out the problem related to SR-IOV over IB that breaks the network connections after VM migration when the static assignment is deployed. Then, we propose a signalling mechanism that can maintain the network connectivity after VM migration. The performance evaluation using an experimental test bed shows that the proposed signalling mechanism does not increase the service downtime during hot migration. We also optimize the signalling method, where the same event can only be forwarded to a physical server once regardless of the hosted VMs, to reduce the management message overhead from O(n*m) to O(n). |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2012 | 10.1109/ICPADS.2012.60 | ICPADS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
architecture,network connections,virtualization,virtual ib device,ib network,vm migration,physical server,network connectivity,hot migration,single root i/o virtualization,infiniband,scalable signalling mechanism,virtual machines,infiniband network,service downtime,hardware address assignment,hardware address,static assignment,virtualisation,computer network performance evaluation,xen,lan interconnection,subnet manager,network connection,peripheral interfaces,performance evaluation,management message overhead reduction,message passing,dynamic assignment,proposed signalling mechanism,ipoib,sr-iov | Virtualization,Network connectivity,Signalling,Virtual machine,InfiniBand,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Message passing,Distributed computing,Downtime,Operating system,Scalability | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1521-9097 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4903-3 | 978-0-7695-4903-3 | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.38 | 12 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wei Lin Guay | 1 | 32 | 2.35 |
| Sven-Arne Reinemo | 2 | 184 | 12.64 |
| Bjorn Dag Johnsen | 3 | 29 | 5.92 |
| Tor Skeie | 4 | 1103 | 74.67 |
| Ola Torudbakken | 5 | 7 | 1.28 |