Moving device virtualization from the virtual machine (VM) to the system devices significantly improves VM performance, but also requires support from the devices. Currently, PCI and PCI Express (PCIe) devices can provide VMs with direct and secure I/O through the use of multiple functions per card, but at extra cost and inflexibility due to their silicon implementation. Alternative solutions are available that achieve the same results without the silicon dependency and at half the expense. This session will focus on new methods to achieve improvements with flexible, self-virtualizing PCIe devices, while also reducing costs.
Speaker Bio: Derek McAuley is Chief Scientist of Netronome Systems. He spent ten years as an academic at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities where he designed and taught courses in virtualization, hardware design, computer architecture, communications, distributed systems, networking, operating systems, and information theory. McAuley was one of the founding members of the Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge, and is a founding Director of the Intel Lab in Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the BCS and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
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