From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn23o-0004Hu-HJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:30:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn23l-0003FQ-By for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:30:04 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:39646 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn23l-0003F9-6t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:30:01 -0400 References: <20180807091209.13531-1-xiaoguangrong@tencent.com> <20180807091209.13531-2-xiaoguangrong@tencent.com> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <6fb46b1e-5cae-24ec-acd6-72ba562a5c05@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 08:29:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180807091209.13531-2-xiaoguangrong@tencent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/10] migration: do not wait for free thread List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: guangrong.xiao@gmail.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, dgilbert@redhat.com, peterx@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com, jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn, Xiao Guangrong On 08/07/2018 04:12 AM, guangrong.xiao@gmail.com wrote: > From: Xiao Guangrong > > Instead of putting the main thread to sleep state to wait for > free compression thread, we can directly post it out as normal > page that reduces the latency and uses CPUs more efficiently > > A parameter, compress-wait-thread, is introduced, it can be > enabled if the user really wants the old behavior > > Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong > --- > +++ b/qapi/migration.json > @@ -462,6 +462,11 @@ > # @compress-threads: Set compression thread count to be used in live migration, > # the compression thread count is an integer between 1 and 255. > # > +# @compress-wait-thread: Wait if no thread is free to compress the memory page > +# if it's enabled, otherwise, the page will be posted out immediately > +# in the main thread without compression. It's true on default. > +# (Since: 3.1) Grammar suggestion: @compress-wait-thread: Controls behavior when all compression threads are currently busy. If true (default), wait for a free compression thread to become available; otherwise, send the page uncompressed. (Since 3.1) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org