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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is to declare the candidacy of Arch Committee for Arm. The PR is at
<a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/community/pull/56">https://github.com/kata-containers/community/pull/56</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The candidacy text file as below:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kata-containers Architecture Committee Candidacy Declaration<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Platform: Arm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Candiate: Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@arm.com><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I'm working for Arm Electronic Technology (Shanghai) Co.Ltd.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This candidacy is representing Arm company to be voted for one seat of the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kata-container architecture committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My current role is Senior Engineering Manager in the Open Source Software Group<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and I lead a team working on virtualization and container technology on the Arm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">platform. I have more than 10 years of experience in virtualization, especially<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for hardware virtualization development including KVM and Xen. After that, I<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">transferred focus to OS virtualization and container development.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In recent years, my team started development on RunV project, one of the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">predecessors to Kata-containers, to enable and enhance the multi-arch support.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our focus areas included KVMtool support, performance profiling of the network<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and storage devices for virtual machines, and we also worked on stability and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">density improvements. For example, we identified a networking performance gap<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and improved throughput by 10x on both Arm and x86 platforms. Another example,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">we proposed and modified the synchronization mechanism between the hyperstart<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">thread and VM. These and other contributions were all merged in RunV upstream.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of them are already in Kata-container project too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For these collaborations, there were public blogs announced at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://blog.hyper.sh/arm_and_hyper.html and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://community.arm.com/iot/b/blog/posts/arm-and-hyper-hq-will-push-runv-for-the-future-of-container-security.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have met regularly with Hyper team to discuss the development issues and solutions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When RunV evolved into kata-containers, we transferred our effort into this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">new joint project and contribute to it as ever. Initially, We found it couldn't<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">run successfully with multi-arch as before, lots of current test cases and CI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">environment setting up are not for multi-arch in the first stage. We start to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fix the compatibility issues for different architectures. We are also working on the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">public CI support for mutli-arch to ensure the ongoing reliability and stability<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the project. During the process, we feel this new joint project is very open,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">friendly and full of vitality as before. That's so great to work in the community!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interests:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We believe this is just the beginning for the Kata-containers project and that it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">will have much broader applicability across different architectures and use<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cases, especially within the emerging next-generation IoT and 5G era! These<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">different use cases will generate new design requirements of the underlying<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">architecture and we believe strongly that good multi-architecture support will<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">be essential to position Kata-containers for broad adoption throughout the cloud<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">native ecosystem.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to driving these changes together, so the Kata-containers project<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">can reach its full potential!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kaly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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