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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: James Harper <JamesH@bendigoit.com.au>, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: migration
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:21:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415D7615.8050808@diku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CDOAs-0006C9-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>

Ian Pratt wrote:
>>>Live migration is a lot more "exciting" from an 
>>>implementation point of view than stop-and-copy, so if you do 
>>>have bug reports it would be very useful to know whether you 
>>>can repeat them in stop-and-copy mode. 
>>
>>I was logged in the whole time and there was about 1/2 a second where it
>>seemed to freeze, but no bugs to report.
> 
> 
> With the old xend and old IO we used to get live migration times
> downtimes in the order of <50ms for quiescent domains.
> 
> I'm confident we can get back to that order of performance with a
> few tweaks Mike and I are currently working on.

hi,

I have an alternative implementation, where live-migration takes place 
entirely within the guest domain. It is currently only implemented for 
Linux 2.4, and in the old 1.3 I/O model. It has (in my opinion) a few 
benefits, because Linux is able to make better informed decisions during 
migration than Xen is.

My hope is to someday be compatible with the latest and greatest 
Xen-version, so I have not released any source for this yet. However, if 
you are interested, let me know and I can send you my patches for 
XenoLinux (no changes to Xen needed), or some binaries to play with.

There is a short paper describing my approach at 
http://www.diku.dk/~jacobg/nomadxen.pdf

best,
Jacob


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01 11:14 migration James Harper
2004-10-01 14:14 ` migration Ian Pratt
2004-10-01 15:21   ` Jacob Gorm Hansen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-01  1:01 migration James Harper
2004-10-01 10:43 ` migration Ian Pratt

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