VM Optimizations for RT

QEMU/KVM are a popular backend for OpenStack. In StarlingX Openstack (stx-openstack) this is also the case. I’ll try to describe various techniques that I used to optimize RT behavior on an STX 4.0.1 cluster with worker nodes. Terminology Bare-Metal is a a physical computer and it’s base OS Host is a bare-metal machine that runs VMs Thread is a core of a CPU CPU thread refers to the thread on the host system CPU ...

November 10, 2020 · 1 min · 176 words