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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages
@ 2013-03-21 18:34 Orit Wasserman
  2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] Add QemuFileWritevBuffer QemuFileOps Orit Wasserman
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From: Orit Wasserman @ 2013-03-21 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Orit Wasserman, pbonzini, mst, chegu_vinod, quintela

In migration all data is copied to a static buffer in QEMUFile,
this hurts our network bandwidth and CPU usage especially with large guests.
We switched to iovec for storing different buffers to send (even a byte field is
considered as a buffer) and use writev to send the iovec.
writev was chosen (as apposed to sendmsg) because it supprts non socket fds.
  
Guest memory pages are not copied by calling a new function 
qemu_put_buffer_no_copy.
The page header data and device state data are still copied into the static
buffer. This data consists of a lot of bytes and integer fields and the static
buffer is used to store it during batching.
Another improvement is changing qemu_putbe64/32/16 to create a single
buffer instead of several byte sized buffer.

git repository: git://github.com/oritwas/qemu.git sendv_v2

Changes from v3:
Use a variable for iov_size
Change f->bytes_xfer +=1 to f->bytes_xfer++
Remove unneeded "More optimized qemu_put_be64/32/16" patch
Move code to the right patch
Rename qemu_put_buffer_no_copy to qemu_put_buffer_async
Use function for updating the iovec that detect adjacent iovecs and coalesce
them.

Change from v2:
Always send data for the iovec even if writev_buffer is not implemented.
Coalesce adjacent iovecs to create one big buffer from small adjacent buffer.

Changes from v1:
Use iov_send for socket.
Make writev_buffer optional and if it is not implemented use put_buffer

Future work: Make number of iovec changeable

Orit Wasserman (8):
  Add QemuFileWritevBuffer QemuFileOps
  Add socket_writev_buffer function
  Update bytes_xfer in qemu_put_byte
  Store the data to send also in iovec
  Use writev ops if available
  Add qemu_put_buffer_async
  Use qemu_put_buffer_async for guest memory pages
  coalesce adjacent iovecs

 arch_init.c                   |   2 +-
 include/migration/qemu-file.h |  12 +++++
 savevm.c                      | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.11.7

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2013-03-21 18:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] Add QemuFileWritevBuffer QemuFileOps Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] Add socket_writev_buffer function Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 19:35   ` Eric Blake
2013-03-22  7:30     ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-22 17:08       ` Eric Blake
2013-03-23  7:07         ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/8] Update bytes_xfer in qemu_put_byte Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/8] Store the data to send also in iovec Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/8] Use writev ops if available Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/8] Add qemu_put_buffer_async Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 19:38   ` Eric Blake
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] Use qemu_put_buffer_async for guest memory pages Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] coalesce adjacent iovecs Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 19:41   ` Eric Blake

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