[PATCH v2 0/3] support dirty restraint on vCPU

[huangy81@chinatelecom.cn]

From: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <huangy81@chinatelecom.cn>

v2:
- rebase on master
- modify the following points according to the advices given by Juan
  1. rename dirtyrestraint to dirtylimit
  2. implement the full lifecyle function of dirtylimit_calc, include
     dirtylimit_calc and dirtylimit_calc_quit
  3. introduce 'quit' field in dirtylimit_calc_state to implement the
     dirtylimit_calc_quit
  4. remove the ready_cond and ready_mtx since it may not be suitable
  5. put the 'record_dirtypage' function code at the beggining of the 
     file 
  6. remove the unnecesary return;
- other modifications has been made after code review
  1. introduce 'bmap' and 'nr' field in dirtylimit_state to record the
     number of running thread forked by dirtylimit
  2. stop the dirtyrate calculation thread if all the dirtylimit thread
     are stopped
  3. do some renaming works
     dirtyrate calulation thread -> dirtylimit-calc 
     dirtylimit thread -> dirtylimit-{cpu_index}
     function name do_dirtyrestraint -> dirtylimit_check
     qmp command dirty-restraint -> set-drity-limit
     qmp command dirty-restraint-cancel -> cancel-dirty-limit
     header file dirtyrestraint.h -> dirtylimit.h

Please review, thanks !

thanks for the accurate and timely advices given by Juan. we really
appreciate it if corrections and suggetions are proposed !

Best Regards ! 
Hyman

v1:
this patchset introduce a mechanism to impose dirty restraint
on vCPU, aiming to keep the vCPU running in a certain dirtyrate
given by user. dirty restraint on vCPU maybe an alternative
method to implement convergence logic for live migration,
which could improve guest memory performance during migration
compared with traditional method in theory.

For the current live migration implementation, the convergence
logic throttles all vCPUs of the VM, which has some side effects. 
-'read processes' on vCPU will be unnecessarily penalized
- throttle increase percentage step by step, which seems
  struggling to find the optimal throttle percentage when
  dirtyrate is high. 
- hard to predict the remaining time of migration if the
  throttling percentage reachs 99%

to a certain extent, the dirty restraint machnism can fix these
effects by throttling at vCPU granularity during migration.

the implementation is rather straightforward, we calculate
vCPU dirtyrate via the Dirty Ring mechanism periodically
as the commit 0e21bf246 "implement dirty-ring dirtyrate calculation"
does, for vCPU that be specified to impose dirty restraint,
we throttle it periodically as the auto-converge does, once after
throttling, we compare the quota dirtyrate with current dirtyrate,
if current dirtyrate is not under the quota, increase the throttling
percentage until current dirtyrate is under the quota.

this patchset is the basis of implmenting a new auto-converge method
for live migration, we introduce two qmp commands for impose/cancel
the dirty restraint on specified vCPU, so it also can be an independent
api to supply the upper app such as libvirt, which can use it to
implement the convergence logic during live migration, supplemented
with the qmp 'calc-dirty-rate' command or whatever. 

we post this patchset for RFC and any corrections and suggetions about
the implementation, api, throttleing algorithm or whatever are very
appreciated!

Please review, thanks !

Best Regards ! 

Hyman Huang (3):
  migration/dirtyrate: implement vCPU dirtyrate calculation periodically
  cpu-throttle: implement vCPU throttle
  cpus-common: implement dirty limit on vCPU

 cpus-common.c                 |  41 ++++++
 include/exec/memory.h         |   5 +-
 include/hw/core/cpu.h         |   7 +
 include/sysemu/cpu-throttle.h |  23 +++
 include/sysemu/dirtylimit.h   |  44 ++++++
 migration/dirtyrate.c         | 139 ++++++++++++++++--
 migration/dirtyrate.h         |   2 +
 qapi/misc.json                |  44 ++++++
 softmmu/cpu-throttle.c        | 319 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 softmmu/trace-events          |   5 +
 softmmu/vl.c                  |   1 +
 11 files changed, 619 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/sysemu/dirtylimit.h

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