sr-iov提高服务器虚拟化性能-SR-IOVImprovesServer.PDF

White Paper SR-IOV Improves Server Virtualization Performance QLogic FastLinQ 3400/8400 Series Adapters Enhance I/O Throughput and Reduce Processor Utilization SR-IOV alleviates bottlenecks in virtual operating systems and enables “bare-metal” performance of virtualized resources. INDUSTRY CHALLENGE WHAT IS SR-IOV? While virtualization improves server processor utilization PCI-SIG, the special interest group that owns and manages PCI tremendously, it introduces new challenges to network I/O specifications as open industry standards, introduced a suite of performance. Software-based sharing of hardware resources adds specifications for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) to allow multiple overhead to each I/O operation due to the emulation layer between operating systems to share a physical interconnect. The SR-IOV standard the virtual machines (VMs) and the underlying I/O hardware. This allows multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to share an I/O device, while virtualization introduces latency, consumes compute cycles, and allowing for close to bare-metal runtime performance. reduces overall network and system performance. The Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) specification details how a In a virtualized server, the hypervisor abstracts and shares physical single PCI Express (PCIe) device can be shared