[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/12] rdma: migration support

[mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com]

From: "Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@us.ibm.com>

Changes since v4:

- Added new QEMUFileOps function: qemu_get_max_size()
- Renamed capability to x-pin-all, disabled by default
- Added numbers for x-pin-all to performance section in docs/rdma.txt
- Included performance numbers in this cover letter
- Converted throughput patch to a MigrationStats statistic in QMP
- Better QMP error message delivery
- Updated documentation
- Moved docs/rdma.txt up to top of patch series
- Fixed all v4 changes requested
- Finished additional cleanup requests
- Updated copyright for migration-rdma.c

Wiki: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/RDMALiveMigration
Github: git@github.com:hinesmr/qemu.git

Here is a brief summary of total migration time and downtime using RDMA:

Using a 40gbps infiniband link performing a worst-case stress test,
using an 8GB RAM virtual machine:
Using the following command:

$ apt-get install stress
$ stress --vm-bytes 7500M --vm 1 --vm-keep

RESULTS:

1. Migration throughput: 26 gigabits/second.
2. Downtime (stop time) varies between 15 and 100 milliseconds.

EFFECTS of memory registration on bulk phase round:

For example, in the same 8GB RAM example with all 8GB of memory in 
active use and the VM itself is completely idle using the same 40 gbps 
infiniband link:

1. x-pin-all disabled total time: approximately 7.5 seconds @ 9.5 Gbps
2. x-pin-all enabled total time: approximately 4 seconds @ 26 Gbps

These numbers would of course scale up to whatever size virtual machine
you have to migrate using RDMA.

Enabling this feature does *not* have any measurable affect on 
migration *downtime*. This is because, without this feature, all of the 
memory will have already been registered already in advance during
the bulk round and does not need to be re-registered during the successive
iteration rounds.

Michael R. Hines (12):
  rdma: add documentation
  rdma: export yield_until_fd_readable()
  rdma: export throughput w/ MigrationStats QMP
  rdma: introduce qemu_get_max_size()
  rdma: introduce qemu_file_mode_is_not_valid()
  rdma: export qemu_fflush()
  rdma: introduce ram_handle_compressed()
  rdma: introduce qemu_ram_foreach_block()
  rdma: new QEMUFileOps hooks
  rdma: introduce capability x-rdma-pin-all
  rdma: core logic
  rdma: send pc.ram

 Makefile.objs                 |    1 +
 arch_init.c                   |   59 +-
 configure                     |   29 +
 docs/rdma.txt                 |  404 ++++++
 exec.c                        |    9 +
 hmp.c                         |    2 +
 include/block/coroutine.h     |    6 +
 include/exec/cpu-common.h     |    5 +
 include/migration/migration.h |   24 +
 include/migration/qemu-file.h |   44 +
 migration-rdma.c              | 2727 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 migration.c                   |   22 +-
 qapi-schema.json              |   12 +-
 qemu-coroutine-io.c           |   23 +
 savevm.c                      |  133 +-
 15 files changed, 3451 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/rdma.txt
 create mode 100644 migration-rdma.c

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