StarlingX/IA Features
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StarlingX IA Feature Sub-project
This project is for work items to enable Intel Architecture specific features.
Team Information
- Project Lead: TBD
- Technical Lead: TBD
- Core Reviewers: TBD
- Contributors: TBD
Team Objective / Priorities
- Validate that existing IA Features already supported in StarlingX are working correctly
- Address any defects in IA Feature support
- Add support for new IA features
Tags
All story board stories and launchpad bugs created for this team should use the tag "stx.ia"
Team Work Items
- Story Board
- Launchpad Bugs
- TBD
IA Features in already in StarlingX
Feature | Description | Baseline | Use Cases | Implementation | Testing Status |
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Vt-X | Accelerates virtual machines to near bare metal performance | Xeon / XeonD | Near native virtualized CPU performance | Performance enhancement of VMs, live migration from one Intel CPU generation to another | |
Vt-D | Enables physical NICs and/or GPUs to be mapped directly to virtual machine | Xeon / XeonD | Native I/O performance | PCI Passthrough and SR-IOV support | |
AVX-512 | Enables high performance vector workloads | Xeon Skylake, Xeon Scalable Processor | Telecom, AI, high performance storage, encryption and compression | Enhanced KVM performance, guest AVX-512 support | |
Trusted Execution Technology | Used to attest system authenticity and state | TPM 2.0 | Secure boot and verified system state | Secure boot, TPM 2.0 storage of communication keys, vTPM 2.0 support in guests. | |
AES-NI | Accelerates encryption/decryption | Xeon Westmere + | Full disk encryption and faster communications | Linux encryption performance enhancements | |
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