[Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/27] Migration thread (WIP)

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Hi

This series are on top of the migration-next-v5 series just posted.

First of all, this is an RFC/Work in progress.  Just a lot of people
asked for it, and I would like review of the design.

It does:
- get a new bitmap for migration, and that bitmap uses 1 bit by page
- it unfolds migration_buffered_file.  Only one user existed.
- it simplifies buffered_file a lot.

- About the migration thread, special attention was giving to try to
  get the series review-able (reviewers would tell if I got it).

Basic design:
- we create a new thread instead of a timer function
- we move all the migration work to that thread (but run everything
  except the waits with the iothread lock.
- we move all the writting to outside the iothread lock.  i.e.
  we walk the state with the iothread hold, and copy everything to one buffer.
  then we write that buffer to the sockets outside the iothread lock.
- once here, we move to writting synchronously to the sockets.
- this allows us to simplify quite a lot.

And basically, that is it.  Notice that we still do the iterate page
walking with the iothread held.  Light testing show that we got
similar speed and latencies than without the thread (notice that
almost no optimizations done here yet).

Appart of the review:
- Are there any locking issues that I have missed (I guess so)
- stop all cpus correctly.  vm_stop should be called from the iothread,
  I use the trick of using a bottom half to get that working correctly.
  but this _implementation_ is ugly as hell.  Is there an easy way
  of doing it?
- Do I really have to export last_ram_offset(), there is no other way
  of knowing the ammount of RAM?

Known issues:

- for some reason, when it has to start a 2nd round of bitmap
  handling, it decides to dirty all pages.  Haven't found still why
  this happens.

If you can test it, and said me where it breaks, it would also help.

Work is based on Umesh thread work, and work that Paolo Bonzini had
work on top of that.  All the mirgation thread was done from scratch
becase I was unable to debug why it was failing, but it "owes" a lot
to the previous design.

Thanks in advance, Juan.

The following changes since commit a21143486b9c6d7a50b7b62877c02b3c686943cb:

  Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/net' into staging (2012-07-23 13:15:34 -0500)

are available in the git repository at:


  http://repo.or.cz/r/qemu/quintela.git migration-thread-v1

for you to fetch changes up to 27e539b03ba97bc37e107755bcb44511ec4c8100:

  buffered_file: unfold buffered_append in buffered_put_buffer (2012-07-24 16:46:13 +0200)


Juan Quintela (23):
  buffered_file: g_realloc() can't fail
  savevm: Factorize ram globals reset in its own function
  ram: introduce migration_bitmap_set_dirty()
  ram: Introduce migration_bitmap_test_and_reset_dirty()
  ram: Export last_ram_offset()
  ram: introduce migration_bitmap_sync()
  Separate migration bitmap
  buffered_file: rename opaque to migration_state
  buffered_file: opaque is MigrationState
  buffered_file: unfold migrate_fd_put_buffer
  buffered_file: unfold migrate_fd_put_ready
  buffered_file: unfold migrate_fd_put_buffer
  buffered_file: unfold migrate_fd_put_buffer
  buffered_file: We can access directly to bandwidth_limit
  buffered_file: Move from using a timer to use a thread
  migration: make qemu_fopen_ops_buffered() return void
  migration: stop all cpus correctly
  migration: make writes blocking
  migration: remove unfreeze logic
  migration: take finer locking
  buffered_file: Unfold the trick to restart generating migration data
  buffered_file: don't flush on put buffer
  buffered_file: unfold buffered_append in buffered_put_buffer

Paolo Bonzini (2):
  split MRU ram list
  BufferedFile: append, then flush

Umesh Deshpande (2):
  add a version number to ram_list
  protect the ramlist with a separate mutex

 arch_init.c      |  108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 buffered_file.c  |  179 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
 buffered_file.h  |   12 +---
 cpu-all.h        |   17 +++++-
 exec-obsolete.h  |   10 ---
 exec.c           |   45 +++++++++++---
 migration-exec.c |    2 -
 migration-fd.c   |    6 --
 migration-tcp.c  |    2 +-
 migration-unix.c |    2 -
 migration.c      |  111 ++++++++++++++-------------------
 migration.h      |    6 ++
 qemu-file.h      |    5 --
 savevm.c         |    5 --
 14 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 261 deletions(-)

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