IO Virtualization for ARM Platforms eLearning Course
Virtualization is one of the hot, exciting areas in the industry today, generating significant revenue, and solving critical problems in data centers and in embedded and mobile markets. However, software virtualization techniques add too much overhead to allow virtualization to be used for some applications. This class will look at those problem applications and the hardware solutions architected by ARM as well as support in standards like PCI Express (PCIe). The course focuses on ARM SoCs that have hardware support for DMA remapping (System MMU - SMMU) and virtual interrupts (GICv3 and GICv4). The course also discusses details of Address Translation Services (ATS), Access Control Services (ACS) and Single-Root IOV (SRIOV) implementations (though not multi-root IOV MRIOV).
IO Virtualization for ARM Platforms eLearning Course
Instructor(s): Joe Winkles
Equivalent of: 4-day course
Subscription Length: 120 days
$1595
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What's Included
IOV ARM eLearning Modules |
PDF of Course Slides |
Course Completion Certificate |
You Will Learn
- What virtualization is, and the revenue generating uses for virtualization
- The major sources of overhead with software-only virtualization techniques
- How I/O virtualization will use the new hardware assists, to solve these problems
- ARM SMMU and ARM GICv3/v4
- DMA remapping (Intermediate Physical to Host Physical as well as Shared Virtual Memory)
- PCIe Address Translation Services (ATS)
- PCIe Access Control Services (ACS)
- Single-Root IOV (SRIOV)
- Process Address Space IDs (PASIDs)
Course Description
- Introduction to Virtualization
- What is virtualization
- Why is it important
- Software Techniques
- Performance Issues
- PCI Pass-through (DirectPath I/O)
- PCIe Address Translation Services (ATS)
- What it is and how it helps
- Performance benefits
- ATS Protocol
- Changes to PCIe packets
- Address Translation Caches (ATCs)
- What it is and how it helps
- PCIe Access Control Services (ACS)
- What it is and why it's needed
- PCIe Single-Root IO Virtualization (SRIOV)
- What it is and how it helps
- Functions vs. Physical Functions (PFs) vs. Virtual Functions (VFs)
- SRIOV Capability Structure (including VF BARs)
- Config space of VFs
- PCIe Alternative Routing ID (ARI)
- ARM SMMU: DMA Remapping
- What it is and how it helps
- Performance benefits
- Security benefits
- Virtual Address (VA) vs. Intermediate Physical Address (IPA) vs. Physical Addresses (PA)
- SMMU functionality and data structures
- Latency issues
- What it is and how it helps
- Shared Virtual Memory
- What it is and how it helps
- PCIe Process Space IDs (PASIDs)
- ARM SMMU support of PASIDs
- ARM GICv3 / v4: Interrupt Remapping
- What it is and why it's needed
- Big security issue
- Virtualization performance improvements
- MSI / MSI-X review (interrupt delivery)
- Shared Peripheral Interrupts (SPIs) vs Locality-specific Peripheral Interrupts (LPIs)
- Interrupt Translation Service (ITS)
- Virtual interrupts
- What it is and why it's needed
Course Content
26min to complete
42min to complete
Recommended Prerequisites
None
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