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Virtflex is a multilayered system that allows the xen hypervisor
to change guests NUMA topology dynamically and allows unmodified OpenMP
applications running in the guests to adapt to topology changes 
automatically. 

The modified Xen-hypervisor is able to add or remove guest NUMA node
through a combination of vCPU hotplug, superpage balloonning and guest
memory migration. Once those changes are finished, the hypervisor
notifies guests through xenstore. The guests then expose a proc file 
interface to allow userspace applications about this change. OpenMP 
runtimes are also modified to periodically poll on the proc file. Once OpenMP
runtime notice there is a NUMA topology change, it re-distribute the
running threads and issues an added syscall to request a reset of application
memory. This syscall scan through the whole address space of the guest
applcations and migrate application memory to the correct node. 

Virtflex provides enhancement across the xen-hypervisor, 
the Linux kernel and the gcc OpenMP runtime. This repo 
consists of the following parts: 
	1. The modified xen-hypervisor based on xen-4.11, 
	2. The modified Linux kernel based on Linux kernel 4.19
	3. The modified openmp runtime based on gcc-7.3
	4. Shell scripts for demonstration of Virtflex.
The system is tested on a EPYC 7551p machine with 4 fully connected NUMA nodes.

Virtflex's topology change is intiated with xenstore. There are
target for different guest NUMA nodes in xenstore and there is one
xenstore node that indicate whether the guest is undergoing topology
changes or not. The guest_topo_change.sh script provided mainly manipulate
xenstore to initiate topology changes to guests. 

guest_topo_change.sh will list the current running
VMs and let the administrator choose the target VM and what action to take
towards the target VM (expand or shrink VM's topology). 

Note that the domonstration requires vCPU pinning and the vCPU pinning
exmaple on EPYC 7551P can be found in vcpu_pinning.sh in the script directory.
The VM creation and configuration scripts can also be found in the script 
directory too.