ACCELERATOR AND ITS METHOD FOR REALIZING SUPPORTING VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION

• US 20120005678A1
• Filed: 06/22/2011
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ge, Yi, Hou, Rui, Hui, Wu Yu, Liu, Liang, Liu, Wei
• Granted Patent: US 8,578,377 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, an accelerator hardware unit, and an article of manufacture for supporting virtual machine migration. The method includes: acquiring a task request from a task queue of an accelerator hardware unit; extracting identification information of a related virtual machine from the task request; determining whether the identification information of the related virtual machine matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated, where the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated is recorded in a virtual machine identification information table; and deleting the task request from the task queue if the extracted identification information matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for supporting virtual machine migration by an accelerator hardware unit, comprising:

acquiring a task request from a task queue of an accelerator hardware unit;

extracting identification information of a related virtual machine from the task request;

determining whether the extracted identification information of the related virtual machine matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated, wherein the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated is recorded in a virtual machine identification information table; and

deleting the task request from the task queue if the extracted identification information matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating the virtual machine identification information table.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein creating the virtual machine identification information table comprises:

receiving, from a virtual machine hypervisor, a control request including the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated;

extracting the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated from the control request; and

adding the extracted identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated into the virtual machine identification information table.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein creating the virtual machine identification information table further comprises:

setting a deletion task mark at the end of the task queue, wherein the deletion task mark includes the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein deleting the task request from the task queue if the extracted identification information matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated comprises:

determining whether the task request includes a deletion task mark;

deleting the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated from the virtual machine identification information table if the task request includes the deletion task mark; and

deleting the task request from the task queue if the task request does not include the deletion task mark.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

executing the task request if the extracted identification information do not match the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identification information of a related virtual machine comprises the identification information of the virtual machine where the application issuing the task request is located.

8. An accelerator hardware unit for supporting virtual machine migration, comprising:

a task queue;

an acquiring module configured to acquire a task request from the task queue;

an extracting module configured to extract identification information of a related virtual machine from the task request;

a determining module configured to determine whether the extracted identification information of the related virtual machine matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated, wherein the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated is recorded in a virtual machine identification information table; and

a deletion module configured to delete the task request from the task queue if the extracted identification information matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

9. The accelerator of claim 8, further comprising a virtual machine identification information table creating module configured to create the virtual machine identification information table.

10. The accelerator of claim 9, wherein the virtual machine identification information creating module is further configured to:

receive, from a virtual machine hypervisor, a control request including the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated;

extract the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated from the control request; and

add the extracted identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated into the virtual machine identification information table.

13. The accelerator according to claim 8, further comprising an executing module configured to execute the task request if the extracted identification information do not match the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

14. The accelerator according to claim 8, wherein the identification information of a related virtual machine includes the identification information of the virtual machine where the application issuing the task request is located.

15. A computer processor for supporting virtual machine migration, comprising the accelerator hardware unit of claim 8.

11. The accelerator of claim 11, wherein the virtual machine identification information table creating module is further configured to:

set a deletion task mark at the end of the task queue, wherein the deletion task mark includes the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.

12. The accelerator of claim 11, wherein deleting the task request from the task queue if the extracted identification information matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated further comprises:

determining whether the task request includes the deletion task mark;

deleting the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated from the virtual machine identification information table if the task request includes the deletion task mark; and

deleting the task request from the task queue if the task request does not include the deletion task mark.

16. An article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions which when implemented causes a computer system to perform the steps of a computer-implemented method for supporting virtual machine migration by an accelerator hardware unit, the steps comprising:

acquiring a task request from a task queue of an accelerator hardware unit;

extracting identification information of a related virtual machine from the task request;

determining whether the extracted identification information of the related virtual machine matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated, wherein the identification information of the virtual machine to be migrated is recorded in a virtual machine identification information table; and

deleting the task request from the task queue if the extracted identification information matches the identification information of a virtual machine to be migrated.