Intel Corporation
Merged input/output operations from a plurality of virtual machines

Abstract:

In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, having: a data interface to communicatively couple to a storage pool having a plurality of disks; a virtual machine manager including a processor; and a storage coprocessor (SCP) to: create a read queue and write queue for the disks in the storage pool; receive an input/output (IO) operation from a virtual machine, the IO operation directed to a storage address located on a disk in the storage pool; and add the IO operation to the queue for the disk.