When VM is configured with huge memory, the current throttle logic
doesn't look like to scale, because migration_trigger_throttle()
is only called for each iteration, so it won't be invoked for a long
time if one iteration can take a long time.
The periodic dirty sync aims to fix the above issue by synchronizing
the ramblock from remote dirty bitmap and, when necessary, triggering
the CPU throttle multiple times during a long iteration.
This is a trade-off between synchronization overhead and CPU throttle
impact.
Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f61f1b3653f2acf026901103e1c73d157d38b08f.1729146786.git.yong.huang@smartx.com
[peterx: make prev_cnt global, and reset for each migration]
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
move the vcpu throttling functionality into its own module.
This functionality is not specific to any accelerator,
and it is used currently by migration to slow down guests to try to
have migrations converge, and by the cocoa MacOS UI to throttle speed.
cpu-throttle contains the controls to adjust and inspect throttle
settings, start (set) and stop vcpu throttling, and the throttling
function itself that is run periodically on vcpus to make them take a nap.
Execution of the throttling function on all vcpus is triggered by a timer,
registered at module initialization.
No functionality change.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200629093504.3228-3-cfontana@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
