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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@cs.technion.ac.il>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: maus <maustudent@gmail.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@fajar.net>
Subject: Re: Are there source codes for Xen-IB?
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:08:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110529090851.GA5876@il.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306419040.775.34.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:10:40PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 15:04 +0100, maus wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I know use IP-over-IB can let KVM or Xen use IB, but what I have to do
> > is like Xen-IB. Not just use IB.
> 
> What is Xen-IB exactly?

OS and hypervisor bypass, i.e., direct access from a user application
running in a domU to the Infiniband adapter (HCA), bypassing both the
domU kernel and Xen for frequent data-path operations. Configuration
and privileged operations still go through the kernel and the
hypervisor.

> > So, there is no toturial for Xen-IB,right?
> 
> That's right, there is no documentation and anyone who would have
> been involved with this stuff is long gone.

Actually, there is a very nice paper describing the approach:

  "High Performance VMM-Bypass I/O in Virtual Machines", Jiuxing
  Liu, Wei Huang, Bulent Abali, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, USENIX ATC '06

Cheers,
Muli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-29  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19  6:27 Are there source codes for Xen-IB? maus
2011-05-23 10:03 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-05-23 10:40   ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-24 10:07     ` maus
2011-05-24 10:15       ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-25 13:40         ` maus
2011-05-26  7:44           ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-26 14:04             ` maus
2011-05-26 14:10               ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-26 18:50                 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-05-28 18:15                   ` Joseph Glanville
2011-05-30  2:48                     ` Joseph Glanville
2011-05-31  9:04                     ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-29  9:08                 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2011-05-31  9:02                   ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-01  6:25                 ` maus

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