Techniques for concurrently supporting virtual NUMA and CPU/memory hot-add in a virtual machine
US12050927B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 15, 2023 |
| Grant date | Jul 30, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 15, 2043 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/657
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques for concurrently supporting virtual non-uniform memory access (virtual NUMA) and CPU/memory hot-add in a virtual machine (VM) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of a host system can compute a node size for a virtual NUMA topology of the VM, where the node size indicates a maximum number of virtual central processing units (vCPUs) and a maximum amount of memory to be included in each virtual NUMA node. The hypervisor can further build and expose the virtual NUMA topology to the VM. Then, at a time of receiving a request to hot-add a new vCPU or memory region to the VM, the hypervisor can check whether all existing nodes in the virtual NUMA topology have reached the maximum number of vCPUs or maximum amount of memory, per the computed node size. If so, the hypervisor can create a new node with the new vCPU or memory region and add the new node to the virtual NUMA topology.
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