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Thursday, October 29 • 16:00 - 16:30
Challenges in Supporting Virtual CPU Hotplug on SoC Based Systems (like ARM64) - Salil Mehta, Huawei

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Summary: Recently some attempts have been made to add support of the Virtual CPU Hotplug for ARM64 in QEMU virtualizer and Linux Guest Kernel but this has got mixed reviews from the community. Where some vendors have practical reasons to have such an support added on the other hand some community members have apprehensions about its support. Idea about this talk is to: 1. Present the motivation of Virtual CPU Hotplug support on ARM64 2. Quick overview 3. Problems in supporting Virtual CPU Hotplug - KVM/QEMU Virtualizer - Guest Kernel - ARM64 System Arch constraints? - Other 4. Problems being faced in up-streaming. 5. Existing work/attempts made to upstream (short mention) 6. Question/Feedback's: - Feedback from people how to proceed and avoid the current deadlock. - Should Virtual CPU Hotplug support depend upon existence of Physical CPU Hotplug support?
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Salil Mehta

System Software Architect, Huawei Technologies (U.K) R&D Ltd.
Salil works primarily on various system aspects of HiSilicon's ARM64 based Server chips. He is also a co-author and an official kernel maintainer of Huawei's on-chip integrated NIC driver HNS (HiSilicon Network Subsystem) across various multi-core server chips (Kunpeng920 and earlier... Read More →

Oct 29 Challenges in Supporting Virtual CPU Hotplug in SoC Based Systems like ARM64 Salil Mehta pdf
Thursday October 29, 2020 16:00 - 16:30 GMT
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