Re: [PATCH 0/2] tests/migration: Fix migration-test slowdown

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 03:19:33PM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 18/04/2023 13.42, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> On 12/04/2023 16.19, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >>>> Since commit:
> >>>> commit 1bfc8dde505f1e6a92697c52aa9b09e81b54c78f
> >>>> Author: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >>>> Date:   Mon Mar 6 15:26:12 2023 +0000
> >>>>       tests/migration: Tweek auto converge limits check
> >>>>       Thomas found an autoconverge test failure where the
> >>>>       migration completed before the autoconverge had kicked in.
> >>>>       [...]
> >>>> migration-test has become very slow.
> >>>> On my laptop, before that commit migration-test takes 2min10seconds
> >>>> After that commit, it takes around 11minutes
> >>>> We can't revert it because it fixes a real problem when the host
> >>>> machine is overloaded.  See the comment on test_migrate_auto_converge().
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, your patches decrease the time to run the migration-test from
> >>> 16 minutes down to 5 minutes on my system, that's a great improvement,
> >>> indeed!
> >>>
> >>> Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >> Thanks
> >> 
> >>> (though 5 minutes are still quite a lot for qtests ... maybe some
> >>> other parts could be moved to only run with g_test_slow() ?)
> >> Hi
> >> Could you gime the output of:
> >> time for i in $(./tests/qtest/migration-test -l | grep "^/"); do
> >> echo $i; time ./tests/qtest/migration-test -p $i; done
> >> To see what tests are taking so long on your system?
> >> On my system (i9900K processor, i.e. not the latest) and
> >> auto_converge
> >> moved to slow the total of the tests take a bit more than 1 minute.
> >
> > This is with both of your patches applied:
> 
> 
> > /x86_64/migration/postcopy/plain
> > /x86_64/migration/postcopy/plain: OK
> >
> > real	0m35,446s
> > user	0m47,208s
> > sys	0m11,828s
> 
> This is quite slower than on mine, basically almost all the code that
> does migration.

This is expected AFAIK.  The migrate_postcopy_prepare method
waits for 1 complete pre-copy pass to run at 3mbps, before
switching to pre-copy mode.

> 
> $ time ./tests/qtest/migration-test -p /x86_64/migration/postcopy/plain
> # random seed: R02S42809b71f513e8524bd24df5facd5768
> # Start of x86_64 tests
> # Start of migration tests
> # Start of postcopy tests
> # starting QEMU: exec ./qemu-system-x86_64 -qtest unix:/tmp/qtest-246853.sock -qtest-log /dev/null -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qtest-246853.qmp,id=char0 -mon chardev=char0,mode=control -display none -accel kvm -accel tcg -name source,debug-threads=on -m 150M -serial file:/tmp/migration-test-1MGL31/src_serial -drive file=/tmp/migration-test-1MGL31/bootsect,format=raw    -accel qtest
> # starting QEMU: exec ./qemu-system-x86_64 -qtest unix:/tmp/qtest-246853.sock -qtest-log /dev/null -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qtest-246853.qmp,id=char0 -mon chardev=char0,mode=control -display none -accel kvm -accel tcg -name target,debug-threads=on -m 150M -serial file:/tmp/migration-test-1MGL31/dest_serial -incoming unix:/tmp/migration-test-1MGL31/migsocket -drive file=/tmp/migration-test-1MGL31/bootsect,format=raw    -accel qtest
> ok 1 /x86_64/migration/postcopy/plain
> # End of postcopy tests
> # End of migration tests
> # End of x86_64 tests
> 1..1
> 
> real	0m1.104s
> user	0m0.697s
> sys	0m0.414s

That is surprisingly fast - it is like it is not doing the pre-copy
pass at all.


> > real	5m32,733s
> > user	7m24,380s
> > sys	1m50,801s
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> Can I ask:
> - what is your machine?  It is specially slow?
>   Otherwise I want to know why it is happening.

This matches what I see in my laptop - any test which runs a full
pre-copy pass gets 30 seconds time added for this phase


With regards,
Daniel
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