From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9BI7-0004H9-1w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:30:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9BI3-00064B-S4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:30:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9BI3-000644-Jm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:30:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:29:59 +0000 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20150108112958.GB2423@work-vm> References: <1420715492-5109-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com> <20150108112242.GB12056@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150108112242.GB12056@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Migration cancel with dead network List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: amit.shah@redhat.com, cristian.klein@cs.umu.se, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quintela@redhat.com * Daniel P. Berrange (berrange@redhat.com) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 11:11:29AM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > > > If the remote host, or networking dies during a migration, the socket can be > > waiting for a long timeout, and migration_cancel can't complete the cancel > > for a long time (and you can't start a new one to somewhere else). > > (Where 'long' is the TCP timeout, that's ~15 mins) > > > > This patch set uses the shutdown(2) syscall to unblock any write/sends that > > are in progress to let the migrate_cancel happen quickly. > > > > 1/3: socket shutdown - An updated patch from my postcopy world to > > add a shut_down method on QEMUFile - only > > for 'socket' (where the syscall is supported). > > > > 2/3: Handle bi-directional communication for fd migration > > - A patch from Cristian Klein to use the socket > > QEMUFile for FDs that are passed in, if the FDs > > are sockets; this is needed so that libvirt > > migrations can take advantage of the other patches. > > Again this patch (and its naming) come from the > > postcopy world. > > > > 3/3: migration_cancel: shutdown migration socket > > - A new patch that uses the shutdown in migrate_fd_cancel > > > > > > Note this does not fix the timeout if you try to migrate to an already dead host; > > the connect timeout is typically a much shorter 2 minutes anyway. > > In any libvirt managed setup, you'd need to address the connect timeout > issue in libvirt instead, since libvirt always uses fd based migration. > ie libvirt estabishes the connection & then passes the TCP Socket to > QEMU. > > It should be possible for libvirt to use a non-blocking connect() > call and catch use of its virDomainMigrateCancel APi to stop the > connection attempt. Yes, although as I say I've not fixed the (must shorter) connect side timeout on the QEMU side either. How does libvirt behave if you cancel a tunnelled migration with the network dieing in the middle? Dave > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK