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October 23-26, 2017 - Prague, Czech Republic
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Wednesday, October 25 • 15:05 - 15:45
The Future of virtio: Riddles, Myths and Surprises - Jens Freimann, Red Hat, Inc.

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As many guests use virtio for all their IO needs, the performance of virtio puts a hard limit on the system performance. virtio is useful as it's a hardware-independent interface - but for some guests, that independence comes at a performance cost. That's why for the last year the virtio community has been looking at different ways to extend virtio - making it work on the underlying hardware better, but without breaking the indepence. This work made us re-examine several underlying assumptions made during early stages of the design of the virtio ring. Some of the findings from this re-examination were surprising; some of the common assumptions are a myth. This presentation is an update on the progress made on the next version of virtio and its future - it will try to dispel some myths and describe some things about virtio that puzzled us and some things we found out that surprised us.

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Jens Freimann

Software Engineering Manager, Red Hat
Jens started his career working on firmware for I/O chipsets in IBM's mainframes but soon transferred to work on a full-system simulator based on KVM. This led him to work on core KVM in the IBM Linux Technology Center before he jumped over to Red Hat to continue working in virtualization... Read More →


Wednesday October 25, 2017 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Grand Ballroom