Re: [PATCH-for-9.1 v2 2/3] migration: Remove RDMA protocol handling

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 09:06:04AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Xu [mailto:peterx@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 6:15 AM
> > To: Yu Zhang <yu.zhang@ionos.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH-for-9.1 v2 2/3] migration: Remove RDMA protocol handling
> > 
> > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:01:59PM +0200, Yu Zhang wrote:
> > > Hello Michael and Peter,
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > >
> > > Exactly, not so compelling, as I did it first only on servers widely
> > > used for production in our data center. The network adapters are
> > >
> > > Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5720
> > > 2-port Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
> > 
> > Hmm... I definitely thinks Jinpu's Mellanox ConnectX-6 looks more reasonable.
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAMGffEn-DKpMZ4tA71MJYdyemg0Zda15
> > wVAqk81vXtKzx-LfJQ@mail.gmail.com/
> > 
> > Appreciate a lot for everyone helping on the testings.
> > 
> > > InfiniBand controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family
> > > [ConnectX-5]
> > >
> > > which doesn't meet our purpose. I can choose RDMA or TCP for VM
> > > migration. RDMA traffic is through InfiniBand and TCP through Ethernet
> > > on these two hosts. One is standby while the other is active.
> > >
> > > Now I'll try on a server with more recent Ethernet and InfiniBand
> > > network adapters. One of them has:
> > > BCM57414 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
> > >
> > > The comparison between RDMA and TCP on the same NIC could make more
> > sense.
> > 
> > It looks to me NICs are powerful now, but again as I mentioned I don't think it's
> > a reason we need to deprecate rdma, especially if QEMU's rdma migration has
> > the chance to be refactored using rsocket.
> > 
> > Is there anyone who started looking into that direction?  Would it make sense
> > we start some PoC now?
> > 
> 
> My team has finished the PoC refactoring which works well. 
> 
> Progress:
> 1.  Implement io/channel-rdma.c,
> 2.  Add unit test tests/unit/test-io-channel-rdma.c and verifying it is successful,
> 3.  Remove the original code from migration/rdma.c,
> 4.  Rewrite the rdma_start_outgoing_migration and rdma_start_incoming_migration logic,
> 5.  Remove all rdma_xxx functions from migration/ram.c. (to prevent RDMA live migration from polluting the core logic of live migration),
> 6.  The soft-RoCE implemented by software is used to test the RDMA live migration. It's successful.
> 
> We will be submit the patchset later.

That's great news, thank you!

-- 
Peter Xu