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Tuesday, October 22 • 9:15am - 10:00am
Effective Multi-Threading in QEMU- Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat

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Various optimizations and techniques have let KVM achieve impressive performance, even though its userspace component is protected by a "big QEMU lock"---not unlike Linux's old "big kernel lock". Performance challenges and real-time requirements are now giving impetus for breaking this barrier. This talk will present past work that has made QEMU subsystems more scalable, explain the existing threading infrastructure in QEMU, and propose ways to extend it and use it.
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Paolo Bonzini

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Paolo is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and the upstream maintainer for both KVM and various subsystems in QEMU.  As a contributor to QEMU, through the years, he has worked on various parts of the project architecture, including the threading architecture, the test frameworks... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 9:15am - 10:00am BST
Edinburgh Suite
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