Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic I/O virtualization system having a bidirectional extended hybrid address space (EHAS) for allowing host kernel to access guest memory
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Application No.: US15880092Application Date: 2018-01-25
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Publication No.: US10255087B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Sreekumar Nair
- Applicant: Dynavisor, Inc.
- Agency: Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/1081 ; G06F12/0868 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F12/084 ; G06F12/0864

Abstract:
A system and method for providing dynamic I/O virtualization is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a device capable of performing hypervisor-agnostic and device-agnostic I/O virtualization includes a host computer interface, memory, I/O devices (GPU, disk, NIC), and efficient communication mechanisms for virtual machines to communicate their intention to perform I/O operations on the device. According to one embodiment, the communication mechanism may use shared memory. According to some embodiments, the device may be implemented purely in hardware, in software, or using a combination of hardware and software. According to some embodiments, the device may share its memory with guest processes to perform optimizations including but not limited to a shared page cache and a shared heap.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180150309A1 DYNAMIC I/O VIRTUALIZATION Public/Granted day:2018-05-31
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