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

[James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>]

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 5:05 PM Dragan Stancevic <dragan@stancevic.com> wrote:
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> Hi folks-
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> if it's not too late for the schedule...
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> I am starting to tackle VM live migration and hypervisor clustering over
> switched CXL memory[1][2], intended for cloud virtualization types of loads.
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> 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...
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> 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.

- James

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> [1]. High-level overview available at http://nil-migration.org/
> [2]. Based on CXL spec 3.0
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