[RFC PATCH v2 0/3] separate thread for VM migration

Umesh Deshpande
2011-07-29T20:57:34Z

Following patch deals with VCPU and iothread starvation during the migration of
a guest. Currently the iothread is responsible for performing the guest
migration. It holds qemu_mutex during the migration and doesn't allow VCPU to
enter the qemu mode and delays its return to the guest. The guest migration,
executed as an iohandler also delays the execution of other iohandlers.
In the following patch series,

The migration has been moved to a separate thread to
reduce the qemu_mutex contention and iohandler starvation.

Also current dirty bitmap is split into per memslot bitmap to reduce its size.

Umesh Deshpande (3):
separate thread for VM migration
fine grained qemu_mutex locking for migration
per memslot dirty bitmap

arch_init.c | 14 ++++++++++--
buffered_file.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++---------
buffered_file.h | 4 +++
cpu-all.h | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
exec.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
migration.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
migration.h | 3 ++
savevm.c | 22 +-------------------
savevm.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
xen-all.c | 6 +---
10 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 savevm.h

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