Patent · US Active

Hypervisor scheduler

US8701115B2 · kind B2 · utility

16Cited by

7References

20Claims

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Aditya Bhandari · Seattle, US
Dmitry Meshchaninov · Maple Valley, US
Shuvabrata Ganguly · Kirkland, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 13, 2013
Grant date	Apr 15, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 13, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/501
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for configuring a hypervisor scheduler to make use of cache topology of processors and physical memory distances between NUMA nodes when making scheduling decisions. In the same or other embodiments the hypervisor scheduler can be configured to optimize the scheduling of latency sensitive workloads. In the same or other embodiments a hypervisor can be configured to expose a virtual cache topology to a guest operating system running in a virtual machine.

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