Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual machine system
- Patent Title (中): 虚拟机系统
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Application No.: US11771176Application Date: 2007-06-29
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Publication No.: US08010719B2Publication Date: 2011-08-30
- Inventor: Toshiomi Moriki , Keitaro Uehara , Yuji Tsushima
- Applicant: Toshiomi Moriki , Keitaro Uehara , Yuji Tsushima
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.
- Priority: JP2007-008220 20070117
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F5/00

Abstract:
Arbitration of IO accesses and band control based on the priority of virtual servers is enabled while curbing performance overhead during IO sharing among the virtual servers. A virtual machine system includes a CPU, a memory, a hypervisor that generates plural virtual servers, and an IO controller that controls an IO interface. The IO controller includes: a DMA receiving unit that receives DMA requests from the IO interface; a decoder that decodes received DMA requests and locates the corresponding virtual servers; a DMA monitoring counter that monitors DMA processing status for each of the virtual servers; a threshold register set in advance for each of the virtual servers; and a priority deciding unit that compares the DMA monitoring counter and the value of the threshold register, and based on processing priority obtained as a result of the comparison, decides the priority of processing of the received DMA requests.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080172499A1 VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2008-07-17
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