CFP: 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2015 -- co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2015

2015-08-31 Thread Ioan Raicu
Call for Papers --- The 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2015 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS15/

Re: rfc: vhost user enhancements for vm2vm communication

2015-08-31 Thread Nakajima, Jun
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Hello! > During the KVM forum, we discussed supporting virtio on top > of ivshmem. I have considered it, and came up with an alternative > that has several advantages over that - please see below. > Comments welcome.

Re: [PATCH 0/2] virtio_balloon: do not change memory amount visible via /proc/meminfo

2015-08-31 Thread Denis V. Lunev
On 08/20/2015 12:49 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: Though there is a problem in this setup. The end-user and hosting provider have signed SLA agreement in which some amount of memory is guaranted for the guest. The good thing is that this memory will be given to the guest when the guest will really

RE: [Qemu-devel] rfc: vhost user enhancements for vm2vm communication

2015-08-31 Thread Varun Sethi
Hi Michael, When you talk about VFIO in guest, is it with a purely emulated IOMMU in Qemu? Also, I am not clear on the following points: 1. How transient memory would be mapped using BAR in the backend VM 2. How would the backend VM update the dirty page bitmap for the frontend VM Regards Varun

rfc: vhost user enhancements for vm2vm communication

2015-08-31 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Hello! During the KVM forum, we discussed supporting virtio on top of ivshmem. I have considered it, and came up with an alternative that has several advantages over that - please see below. Comments welcome. - Existing solutions to userspace switching between VMs on the same host are