Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] docs/migration: add qatzip compression feature

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 02:34:07AM +0000, Liu, Yuan1 wrote:
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> > From: Yichen Wang <yichen.wang@bytedance.com>
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> > Cc: Hao Xiang <hao.xiang@linux.dev>; Liu, Yuan1 <yuan1.liu@intel.com>;
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> > Subject: [PATCH v6 1/5] docs/migration: add qatzip compression feature
> > 
> > From: Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@intel.com>
> > 
> > add Intel QATzip compression method introduction
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Nanhai Zou <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Yichen Wang <yichen.wang@bytedance.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/devel/migration/features.rst           |   1 +
> >  docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 252 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/features.rst
> > b/docs/devel/migration/features.rst
> > index 58f8fd9e16..8f431d52f9 100644
> > --- a/docs/devel/migration/features.rst
> > +++ b/docs/devel/migration/features.rst
> > @@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ Migration has plenty of features to support different
> > use cases.
> >     CPR
> >     qpl-compression
> >     uadk-compression
> > +   qatzip-compression
> > diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst
> > b/docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..72fa3e2826
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst
> > @@ -0,0 +1,251 @@
> > +==================
> > +QATzip Compression
> > +==================
> > +In scenarios with limited network bandwidth, the ``QATzip`` solution can
> > help
> > +users save a lot of host CPU resources by accelerating compression and
> > +decompression through the Intel QuickAssist Technology(``QAT``) hardware.
> 
> Hi Yichen
> 
> Thanks for adding the part of Performance Testing with QATzip, I wonder if we
> can remove Performance Testing with QATzip part and directly add the following
> content. 
> 
> Here, we use a typical example of limited bandwidth to illustrate the advantages
> of QATzip. If the user is interested in qatzip, he still needs to verify the performance
> by himself.
> 
> +The following test was conducted using 8 multifd channels and 10Gbps network
> +bandwidth. The results show that, compared to zstd, ``QATzip`` significantly
> +saves CPU resources on the sender and reduces migration time. Compared to the
> +uncompressed solution, ``QATzip`` greatly improves the dirty page processing
> +capability, indicated by the Pages per Second metric, and also reduces the
> +total migration time.
> +
> +::
> +
> +   VM Configuration: 16 vCPU and 64G memory
> +   VM Workload: all vCPUs are idle and 54G memory is filled with Silesia data.
> +   QAT Devices: 4
> +   |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------|
> +   |8 Channels |Total   |down     |throughput|pages per | send | recv |
> +   |           |time(ms)|time(ms) |(mbps)    |second    | cpu %| cpu% |
> +   |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------|
> +   |qatzip     |   16630|       28|     10467|   2940235|   160|   360|
> +   |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------|
> +   |zstd       |   20165|       24|      8579|   2391465|   810|   340|
> +   |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------|
> +   |none       |   46063|       40|     10848|    330240|    45|    85|
> +   |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------|

Yes this looks much simpler and better.  The 10GBps test isn't that useful
at least, especially with nocomp numbers absent.  I didn't say when looking
previously, but it'll be better to clarify the numbers.

Yuan, thanks so much for reviewing all the relevant patches.  It's very
helpful to us.

-- 
Peter Xu