From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: richard.henderson@linaro.org, "Hyman Huang(黄勇)" <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Subject: [PULL 2/3] qapi: Craft the dirty-limit capability comment
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 09:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230802074041.418954-3-armbru@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230802074041.418954-1-armbru@redhat.com>
From: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Message-ID: <169073570563.19893.2928364761104733482-2@git.sr.ht>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
qapi/migration.json | 13 +++++--------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qapi/migration.json b/qapi/migration.json
index dffa60fd91..8843e74b59 100644
--- a/qapi/migration.json
+++ b/qapi/migration.json
@@ -519,14 +519,11 @@
# are present. 'return-path' capability must be enabled to use
# it. (since 8.1)
#
-# @dirty-limit: If enabled, migration will use the dirty-limit
-# algorithim to throttle down guest instead of auto-converge
-# algorithim. Throttle algorithim only works when vCPU's dirtyrate
-# greater than 'vcpu-dirty-limit', read processes in guest os
-# aren't penalized any more, so this algorithim can improve
-# performance of vCPU during live migration. This is an optional
-# performance feature and should not affect the correctness of the
-# existing auto-converge algorithim. (Since 8.1)
+# @dirty-limit: If enabled, migration will throttle vCPUs as needed to
+# keep their dirty page rate within @vcpu-dirty-limit. This can
+# improve responsiveness of large guests during live migration,
+# and can result in more stable read performance. Requires KVM
+# with accelerator property "dirty-ring-size" set. (Since 8.1)
#
# Features:
#
--
2.41.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-02 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-02 7:40 [PULL 0/3] QAPI patches patches for 2023-08-02 Markus Armbruster
2023-08-02 7:40 ` [PULL 1/3] qapi: Reformat the dirty-limit migration doc comments Markus Armbruster
2023-08-02 7:40 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2023-08-02 7:40 ` [PULL 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Add section "Migration dirty limit and dirty page rate" Markus Armbruster
2023-08-02 15:14 ` [PULL 0/3] QAPI patches patches for 2023-08-02 Richard Henderson
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