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Wednesday, September 15 • 05:30 - 05:55
Support SDEI Virtualization and Asynchronous Page Fault for arm64 - Gavin Shan, Redhat

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The asynchronous page fault has been supported on x86 for long time. It helps to improve the parallelism and performance of the guest by picking another process to execute when the requested page is not ready immediately in stage-2 page fault handler. In this way, the vCPU on which the page is requested do not have to be suspended until the requested page becomes ready. The asynchronous page fault is not supported on arm64 yet and it relies on two signals or notifications delivered from host to guest: page-not-present and page-ready. The page-not-present notification should be delivered in synchronized fashion. As NMI is not supported by arm64 naturally, so SDEI (Software Delegated Exception Interface) is leveraged to deliver the page-not-present notification synchronously. On the other hand, the page-ready is delivered from host to guest by using PPI (Private Peripheral Interrupt). The presentation will explain the design and implementation of SDEI virtualization and asynchronous page fault. Besides, the benchmarks will be presented either to show how much the guest can benefit from the features.
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Gavin Shan

Senior Software Engineer, Redhat
Gavin is currently employed by Redhat to work on KVM support for arm64. The most intrested areas spans from memory management to live migration and QEMU etc. Prior to that, Gavin has been working on Linux kernel and driver for over 10 years, used to be employed by IBM to maintain... Read More →

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Wednesday September 15, 2021 05:30 - 05:55 UTC
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