Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] BoF VM live migration over C XL memory​

Dragan Stancevic <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Apr 2023 11:24:59 -0500
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.nil-migration,org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi David-


On 4/7/23 18:17, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2023, James Houghton wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 5:05 PM Dragan Stancevic <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks-
>>>
>>> if it's not too late for the schedule...
>>>
>>> I am starting to tackle VM live migration and hypervisor clustering over
>>> switched CXL memory[1][2], intended for cloud virtualization types of loads.
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in doing a small BoF session with some slides and get
>>> into a discussion/brainstorming with other people that deal with VM/LM
>>> cloud loads. Among other things to discuss would be page migrations over
>>> switched CXL memory, shared in-memory ABI to allow VM hand-off between
>>> hypervisors, etc...
>>>
>>> A few of us discussed some of this under the ZONE_XMEM thread, but I
>>> figured it might be better to start a separate thread.
>>>
>>> If there is interested, thank you.
>>
>> Hi Dragan,
>>
>> Thanks for bringing up this topic. I'd be very interested to be part
>> of this BoF, as I'm also interested in using CXL.mem as a live
>> migration mechanism.
>>
> 
> Thanks for cc'ing me, this would be very interesting to talk about.  Count
> me in!
> 
>>> [1]. High-level overview available at http://nil-migration.org/
>>> [2]. Based on CXL spec 3.0
>>>
> 
> Dragan: I'm curious about the reference to CXL spec 3.0 here, is there
> something specific about 3.0 that this work depends on or should we be
> good-to-go with 2.0 as well?  (Are you referring to 3.0 for security
> extensions?)


Sorry hit send too soon, and then had hosting provider issues... the 
hypervisor clustering part[1] might not work on CXL 2.0


[1]. http://nil-migration.org/ds-nil-migration-p12.png



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