Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 08/11] block-migration: efficiently encode zero blocks

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:09:55PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
> 
> Am 01.07.2013 um 16:13 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:11:32PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
> >> 
> >>     /* device name */
> >>     len = strlen(blk->bmds->bs->device_name);
> >>     qemu_put_byte(f, len);
> >>     qemu_put_buffer(f, (uint8_t *)blk->bmds->bs->device_name, len);
> >> 
> >> +    /* if a block is zero we need to flush here since the network
> >> +     * bandwidth is now a lot higher than the storage device bandwidth.
> >> +     * thus if we queue zero blocks we slow down the migration */
> >> +    if (flags & BLK_MIG_FLAG_ZERO_BLOCK) {
> >> +        qemu_fflush(f);
> >> +        return;
> >> +    }
> > 
> > Not sure I understand this.  Is the problem that the other side may
> > require an slow writev() to fill zeros?  So you want to tell the
> > destination about the zeroes ASAP.
> 
> Sorry, missed this question. Yes. If a lot of zero blocks is queued it delays
> migration because the target is idle while the source is queuing zero blocks.

Thanks.  I think this makes sense.

Stefan