A survey on I/O virtualization and optimization
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-28-2010
Abstract
This paper surveys virtualization of I/O devices, which is one of the most difficult parts in system virtualization. Current technologies of virtualizing I/O devices include full virtualization, paravirtualization, software emulation and VMM-bypass direct I/O. Optimizations are also done to improve the performance of each technology. Most optimizations used paravirtualization technology for reference. VMM-bypass direct I/O performs the best performance, but the VM direct-access I/O devices is difficult to be migrated, for it is hard to capture the states of the devices without VMM interference. An ideal approach is still required, and all the optimizations to the other approaches can be used for reference. We evaluated I/O performance in KVM and proposed some optimizations to improve KVM. © 2010 IEEE.
Publication Title
Proceedings - 5th Annual ChinaGrid Conference, ChinaGrid 2010
Recommended Citation
Zhang, B.,
Wang, X.,
Lai, R.,
Yang, L.,
Luo, Y.,
Li, X.,
&
Wang, Z.
(2010).
A survey on I/O virtualization and optimization.
Proceedings - 5th Annual ChinaGrid Conference, ChinaGrid 2010, 117-123.
http://doi.org/10.1109/ChinaGrid.2010.54
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