Abstract:
A system and related method of operation for migrating the memory of a virtual machine from one NUMA node to another. Once the VM is migrated to a new node, migration of memory pages is performed while giving priority to the most utilized pages, so that access to these pages becomes local as soon as possible. Various heuristics are described to enable different implementations for different situations or scenarios.
Abstract:
A system and related method of operation for migrating the memory of a virtual machine from one NUMA node to another. Once the VM is migrated to a new node, migration of memory pages is performed while giving priority to the most utilized pages, so that access to these pages becomes local as soon as possible. Various heuristics are described to enable different implementations for different situations or scenarios.
Abstract:
A virtualized computer system implements a process to migrate a virtual machine (VM) from a source host to a destination host. During this process, a processing unit at the source host, which is executing instructions of the VM, is scheduled so that the rate of modification of guest physical memory pages is reduced. The determination of when to schedule the processing unit in this manner may be made based on a current rate of modification of the pages, a transmission rate of guest physical memory pages from the source host to the destination host, or a prior VM migration performance.
Abstract:
A virtualized computer system implements a process to migrate a virtual machine (VM) from a source host to a destination host. During this process, a processing unit at the source host, which is executing instructions of the VM, is scheduled so that the rate of modification of guest physical memory pages is reduced. The determination of when to schedule the processing unit in this manner may be made based on a current rate of modification of the pages, a transmission rate of guest physical memory pages from the source host to the destination host, or a prior VM migration performance.
Abstract:
Miss rate curves are constructed in a resource-efficient manner so that they can be constructed and memory management decisions can be made while the workloads are running. The resource-efficient technique includes the steps of selecting a subset of memory pages for the workload, maintaining a least recently used (LRU) data structure for the selected memory pages, detecting accesses to the selected memory pages and updating the LRU data structure in response to the detected accesses, and generating data for constructing a miss-rate curve for the workload using the LRU data structure. After a memory page is accessed, the memory page may be left untraced for a period of time, after which the memory page is retraced.
Abstract:
A system and related method of operation for migrating the memory of a virtual machine from one NUMA node to another. Once the VM is migrated to a new node, migration of memory pages is performed while giving priority to the most utilized pages, so that access to these pages becomes local as soon as possible. Various heuristics are described to enable different implementations for different situations or scenarios.