QPL compression and decompression will use IAA hardware path if the IAA
hardware is available. Otherwise the QPL library software path is used.
The hardware path will automatically fall back to QPL software path if
the IAA queues are busy. In some scenarios, this may happen frequently,
such as configuring 4 channels but only one IAA device is available. In
the case of insufficient IAA hardware resources, retry and fallback can
help optimize performance:
1. Retry + SW fallback:
total time: 14649 ms
downtime: 25 ms
throughput: 17666.57 mbps
pages-per-second: 1509647
2. No fallback, always wait for work queues to become available
total time: 18381 ms
downtime: 25 ms
throughput: 13698.65 mbps
pages-per-second: 859607
If both the hardware and software paths fail, the uncompressed page is
sent directly.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nanhai Zou <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
during initialization, a software job is allocated to each channel
for software path fallabck when the IAA hardware is unavailable or
the hardware job submission fails. If the IAA hardware is available,
multiple hardware jobs are allocated for batch processing.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nanhai Zou <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
add the Query Processing Library (QPL) compression method
Introduce the qpl as a new multifd migration compression method, it can
use In-Memory Analytics Accelerator(IAA) to accelerate compression and
decompression, which can not only reduce network bandwidth requirement
but also reduce host compression and decompression CPU overhead.
How to enable qpl compression during migration:
migrate_set_parameter multifd-compression qpl
There is no qpl compression level parameter added since it only supports
level one, users do not need to specify the qpl compression level.
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: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
[fixed docs spacing in migration.json]
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
