Evaluating and Optimizing I/O Virtualization in Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Binbin Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Rongfeng Lai, Liang Yang, Zhenlin Wang, Yingwei Luo, Xiaoming Li To cite this version: Binbin Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Rongfeng Lai, Liang Yang, Zhenlin Wang, et al.. Evaluating and Op- timizing I/O Virtualization in Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), Sep 2010, Zhengzhou, China. pp.220-231, 10.1007/978- 3-642-15672-4_20. hal-01054988 HAL Id: hal-01054988 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01054988 Submitted on 11 Aug 2014 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License Evaluating and Optimizing I/O Virtualization in Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Binbin Zhang1, Xiaolin Wang1, Rongfeng Lai1, Liang Yang1, Zhenlin Wang2, Yingwei Luo1 and Xiaoming Li1 1) Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871 2) Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA {wxl, lyw}@pku.edu.cn,
[email protected] Abstract. I/O virtualization performance is an important problem in KVM. In this paper, we evaluate KVM I/O performance and propose several optimizations for improvement.