[Qemu-devel] [v7 09/14] migration: Make compression co-work with xbzrle

[Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>]

Now, multiple thread compression can co-work with xbzrle. when
xbzrle is on, multiple thread compression will only work at the
first round of RAM data sync.

Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr.David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
---
 arch_init.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
index d657a6c..8fb2ea4 100644
--- a/arch_init.c
+++ b/arch_init.c
@@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ static QemuMutex *comp_done_lock;
 static QemuCond *comp_done_cond;
 /* The empty QEMUFileOps will be used by file in CompressParam */
 static const QEMUFileOps empty_ops = { };
+static bool compression_switch;
+
 static DecompressParam *decomp_param;
 static QemuThread *decompress_threads;
 static uint8_t *compressed_data_buf;
@@ -436,6 +438,7 @@ void migrate_compress_threads_create(void)
     if (!migrate_use_compression()) {
         return;
     }
+    compression_switch = true;
     thread_count = migrate_compress_threads();
     compress_threads = g_new0(QemuThread, thread_count);
     comp_param = g_new0(CompressParam, thread_count);
@@ -1059,9 +1062,16 @@ static int ram_find_and_save_block(QEMUFile *f, bool last_stage,
                 block = QLIST_FIRST_RCU(&ram_list.blocks);
                 complete_round = true;
                 ram_bulk_stage = false;
+                if (migrate_use_xbzrle()) {
+                    /* If xbzrle is on, stop using the data compression at this
+                     * point. In theory, xbzrle can do better than compression.
+                     */
+                    flush_compressed_data(f);
+                    compression_switch = false;
+                }
             }
         } else {
-            if (migrate_use_compression()) {
+            if (compression_switch && migrate_use_compression()) {
                 pages = ram_save_compressed_page(f, block, offset, last_stage,
                                                  bytes_transferred);
             } else {
-- 
1.9.1