Apparatus and method for processing telemetry data in a virtualized graphics processor

A method comprising:

• providing one or more virtual machines (VMs) with controlled access to graphics processing resources of one or more graphics processing units (GPUs) in accordance with a current graphics virtualization configuration specified, at least in part, in one or more virtualization control registers of virtualization control circuitry;
• scheduling each VM for processing by the graphics processing resources;
• assigning a time-sliced quantum of the graphics processing resources to each VM in accordance with the graphics virtualization configuration;
• collecting telemetry data associated with the VMs at an end of each time-sliced quantum;
• combining telemetry data collected for each VM over a period of time to generate per-VM telemetry data;
• storing the per-VM telemetry data in a data repository;
• analyzing the per-VM telemetry data in the data repository;
• and
• updating the virtualization control registers to specify changes to the graphics virtualization configuration based on the analysis.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing program code which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations of:

• providing one or more virtual machines (VMs) with controlled access to graphics processing resources of one or more graphics processing units (GPUs) in accordance with a current graphics virtualization configuration specified, at least in part, in one or more virtualization control registers of virtualization control circuitry;
• scheduling each VM for processing by the graphics processing resources;
• assigning a time-sliced quantum of the graphics processing resources to each VM in accordance with the graphics virtualization configuration;
• collecting telemetry data associated with the VMs at an end of each time-sliced quantum;
• combining telemetry data collected for each VM over a period of time to generate per-VM telemetry data;
• storing the per-VM telemetry data in a data repository;
• analyzing the per-VM telemetry data in the data repository;
• and
• updating the virtualization control registers to specify changes to the graphics virtualization configuration based on the analysis.