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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 ||
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| 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 ||
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| 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 ||
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| 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.||
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| AES-NI || Accelerates encryption/decryption || Xeon Westmere +|| Full disk encryption and faster communications|| Linux encryption performance enhancements||
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Revision as of 21:44, 24 October 2018

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

  • Launchpad Bugs
    • TBD

IA Features in already in StarlingX

Feature Description Baseline Use Cases Implementation Testing Status
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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