Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] qtest/migration: Use switchover-hold to speedup

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

On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 09:16:26PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> Use the switchover-hold flag rather than tuning bw+downtime to guide test
> convergence.
> 
> This can achieve similar goal of previous patch "tests/qtest: massively
> speed up migration-test" but without magic offset to write or monitoring.
> 
> The initial solution can reduce migration-test time from 8min to 1min40s,
> this patch can further reduce it from 1m40s to 1m1s per my local test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qtest/migration-test.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
> index b0c355bbd9..62bdd67fd9 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
> +++ b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
> @@ -433,16 +433,15 @@ static void migrate_set_parameter_bool(QTestState *who, const char *parameter,
>  
>  static void migrate_ensure_non_converge(QTestState *who)
>  {
> -    /* Can't converge with 1ms downtime + 3 mbs bandwidth limit */
> -    migrate_set_parameter_int(who, "max-bandwidth", 3 * 1000 * 1000);
> -    migrate_set_parameter_int(who, "downtime-limit", 1);
> +    /* Hold off switchover for precopy only */
> +    migrate_set_parameter_bool(who, "switchover-hold", true);
>  }
>  
>  static void migrate_ensure_converge(QTestState *who)
>  {
> -    /* Should converge with 30s downtime + 1 gbs bandwidth limit */
> -    migrate_set_parameter_int(who, "max-bandwidth", 1 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000);
> -    migrate_set_parameter_int(who, "downtime-limit", 30 * 1000);
> +    /* No limitation on bandwidth so converge faster */
> +    migrate_set_parameter_int(who, "max-bandwidth", 0);

You're already setting max-bandwith==0 in migrate_postcopy_prepare.

If you also set it in test_precopy_common, so we don't need to
set it here, and we'll avoid the initial phase running with
bandwidth=32mbs.

> +    migrate_set_parameter_bool(who, "switchover-hold", false);
>  }
>  
>  static void migrate_pause(QTestState *who)
> @@ -492,6 +491,13 @@ static void migrate_postcopy_start(QTestState *from, QTestState *to)
>      }
>  
>      qtest_qmp_eventwait(to, "RESUME");
> +
> +    /*
> +     * Now allow precopy switchover (which will allow completion).  This
> +     * needs to be done after migrate-start-postcopy to make sure we switch
> +     * to postcopy first.
> +     */
> +    migrate_ensure_converge(from);
>  }
>  
>  typedef struct {
> @@ -1164,6 +1170,8 @@ static int migrate_postcopy_prepare(QTestState **from_ptr,
>      }
>  
>      migrate_ensure_non_converge(from);
> +    /* Still use unlimited precopy speed to finish 1st iteration fast */
> +    migrate_set_parameter_int(from, "max-bandwidth", 0);
>  
>      /* Wait for the first serial output from the source */
>      wait_for_serial("src_serial");
> -- 
> 2.40.1
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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