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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: migrate_set_downtime bug
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:17:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC9F1E4.4070101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091005130409.GD8092@mothafucka.localdomain>

On 10/05/2009 03:04 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:17:30PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 09/30/2009 08:41 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>>      
>>> I just think of common scenarios like 'maintanace mode', where all VM should migrate to another host. A endless migrate task can make that fail.
>>>
>>> For me, it is totally unclear what value I should set for 'max_downtime' to avoid that behavior?
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> We used to have a heuristic that said 'if an iteration transfers more
>> pages than the previous iteration, we've stopped converging'.  Why
>> wouldn't that work?
>>      
> Because it seems people agreed that mgmt tools would be the place for those heuristics.
>    

Heuristics like number of pages, maybe.  But since we don't export 
iteration information, we can't expect management tools to stop the 
guest if migration doesn't converge.

I suppose it could issue a 'stop' after some amount of time (constant * 
memory size / bandwidth).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29 13:00 migrate_set_downtime bug Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-29 14:36 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-29 15:09   ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-29 15:39     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-29 16:23       ` Glauber Costa
2009-09-29 16:36         ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-30  4:48           ` Glauber Costa
2009-09-30  6:58             ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-30  8:55             ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-30 11:23               ` Glauber Costa
2009-09-30 14:11                 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-09-30 16:39                   ` Glauber Costa
2009-09-30 18:41                     ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-05 12:17                       ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-05 13:04                         ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-05 13:17                           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-05 14:09                             ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-05 15:32                               ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-06  8:30                                 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-06 17:33                                   ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-07  4:42                                     ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-07 12:32                                       ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-07 19:40                                         ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-05 14:01                         ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-05 14:06                           ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-05 14:08                             ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-05 14:15                               ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-05 14:11                             ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-05 14:18                         ` Dietmar Maurer

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