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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Custom Hardware Acceleration
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:52:29AM -0800, Jad Naous wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am exploring the possibility of designing a custom hardware
> acceleration solution using an ASIC or an FPGA to accelerate some part
> of Xen. Basically, I am looking for some part of the code that could be
> built in hardware to make it faster. Does anybody know where I could get
> some statistics on the code, such as the most called functions, the most
> parallelizable functions, etc... If you could think of something that
> would be useful in HW I would be very interested to know.
> Thanks,
> Jad.
You could make a custom NIC FPGA that can handle paravirtulized network
receive. The NIC can inspect the destination MAC address of the incomming
packet, and DMA it to a pre-alloced space in the domU (removing the need
for the page flip). It will require modifing the xen network drivers,
but should be pretty cool.
Thanks,
Jon
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