We are going to create a new function for multifd latest in the series.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
We are recalculating ram size continously, when we know that it don't
change during migration. Create a field in RAMState to track it.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
It is just a big if in the middle of the function, and we need two
functions anways.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
---
Reindent to make Phillipe happy (and CODING_STYLE)
We used to return two bools, just return a single int with the
following meaning:
old return / again / new return
false false PAGE_ALL_CLEAN
false true PAGE_TRY_AGAIN
true true PAGE_DIRTY_FOUND /* We don't care about again at all */
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
We will need later that find_dirty_block() return errors, so
simplify the loop.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Let's factor out this check, to be used in virtio-mem context next.
While at it, fix a spelling error in a related comment.
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>S
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
ram_block_populate_read() already optimizes for RamDiscardManager.
However, ram_write_tracking_start() will still try protecting discarded
memory ranges.
Let's optimize, because discarded ranges don't map any pages and
(1) For anonymous memory, trying to protect using uffd-wp without a mapped
page is ignored by the kernel and consequently a NOP.
(2) For shared/file-backed memory, we will fill present page tables in the
range with PTE markers. However, we will even allocate page tables
just to fill them with unnecessary PTE markers and effectively
waste memory.
So let's exclude these ranges, just like ram_block_populate_read()
already does.
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
ram_mig_ram_block_resized() will abort migration (including background
snapshots) when resizing a RAMBlock. ram_block_populate_read() will only
populate RAM up to used_length, so at least for anonymous memory
protecting everything between used_length and max_length won't
actually be protected and is just a NOP.
So let's only protect everything up to used_length.
Note: it still makes sense to register uffd-wp for max_length, such
that RAM_UF_WRITEPROTECT is independent of a changing used_length.
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
When unregistering uffd-wp, older kernels before commit f369b07c86143
("mm/uffd:reset write protection when unregister with wp-mode") won't
clear the uffd-wp PTE bit. When re-registering uffd-wp, the previous
uffd-wp PTE bits would trigger again. With above commit, the kernel will
clear the uffd-wp PTE bits when unregistering itself.
Consequently, we'll clear the uffd-wp PTE bits now twice -- whereby we
don't care about clearing them at all: a new background snapshot will
re-register uffd-wp and re-protect all memory either way.
So let's skip the manual clearing of uffd-wp. If ever relevant, we
could clear conditionally in uffd_unregister_memory() -- we just need a
way to figure out more recent kernels.
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
If something goes wrong during uffd_change_protection(), we would miss
to unregister uffd-wp and not release our reference. Fix it by
performing the uffd_change_protection(true) last.
Note that a uffd_change_protection(false) on the recovery path without a
prior uffd_change_protection(false) is fine.
Fixes: 278e2f551a ("migration: support UFFD write fault processing in ram_save_iterate()")
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Unfortunately, commit f7b9dcfbcf broke populate_read_range(): the loop
end condition is very wrong, resulting in that function not populating the
full range. Lets' fix that.
Fixes: f7b9dcfbcf ("migration/ram: Factor out populating pages readable in ram_block_populate_pages()")
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Until previous commit, save_live_pending() was used for ram. Now with
the split into state_pending_estimate() and state_pending_exact() it
is not needed anymore, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
We split the function into to:
- state_pending_estimate: We estimate the remaining state size without
stopping the machine.
- state pending_exact: We calculate the exact amount of remaining
state.
The only "device" that implements different functions for _estimate()
and _exact() is ram.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Commit d9e474ea56 overlooked the case where the target psize is even larger
than the host psize. One example is Alpha has 8K page size and migration
will start to crash the source QEMU when running Alpha migration on x86.
Fix it by detecting that case and set host start/end just to cover the
single page to be migrated.
This will slightly optimize the common case where host psize equals to
guest psize so we don't even need to do the roundups, but that's trivial.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1456
Fixes: d9e474ea56 ("migration: Teach PSS about host page")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Now with rs->pss we can already cache channels in pss->pss_channels. That
pss_channel contains more infromation than rs->f because it's per-channel.
So rs->f could be replaced by rss->pss[RAM_CHANNEL_PRECOPY].pss_channel,
while rs->f itself is a bit vague now.
Note that vanilla postcopy still send pages via pss[RAM_CHANNEL_PRECOPY],
that's slightly confusing but it reflects the reality.
Then, after the replacement we can safely drop rs->f.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
With the new code to send pages in rp-return thread, there's little help to
keep lots of the old code on maintaining the preempt state in migration
thread, because the new way should always be faster..
Then if we'll always send pages in the rp-return thread anyway, we don't
need those logic to maintain preempt state anymore because now we serialize
things using the mutex directly instead of using those fields.
It's very unfortunate to have those code for a short period, but that's
still one intermediate step that we noticed the next bottleneck on the
migration thread. Now what we can do best is to drop unnecessary code as
long as the new code is stable to reduce the burden. It's actually a good
thing because the new "sending page in rp-return thread" model is (IMHO)
even cleaner and with better performance.
Remove the old code that was responsible for maintaining preempt states, at
the meantime also remove x-postcopy-preempt-break-huge parameter because
with concurrent sender threads we don't really need to break-huge anymore.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
With all the facilities ready, send the requested page directly in the
rp-return thread rather than queuing it in the request queue, if and only
if postcopy preempt is enabled. It can achieve so because it uses separate
channel for sending urgent pages. The only shared data is bitmap and it's
protected by the bitmap_mutex.
Note that since we're moving the ownership of the urgent channel from the
migration thread to rp thread it also means the rp thread is responsible
for managing the qemufile, e.g. properly close it when pausing migration
happens. For this, let migration_release_from_dst_file to cover shutdown
of the urgent channel too, renaming it as migration_release_dst_files() to
better show what it does.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Since we use PageSearchStatus to represent a channel, it makes perfect
sense to keep last_sent_block (aka, leverage RAM_SAVE_FLAG_CONTINUE) to be
per-channel rather than global because each channel can be sending
different pages on ramblocks.
Hence move it from RAMState into PageSearchStatus.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
We used to allocate PSS structure on the stack for precopy when sending
pages. Make it static, so as to describe per-channel ram migration status.
Here we declared RAM_CHANNEL_MAX instances, preparing for postcopy to use
it, even though this patch has not yet to start using the 2nd instance.
This should not have any functional change per se, but it already starts to
export PSS information via the RAMState, so that e.g. one PSS channel can
start to reference the other PSS channel.
Always protect PSS access using the same RAMState.bitmap_mutex. We already
do so, so no code change needed, just some comment update. Maybe we should
consider renaming bitmap_mutex some day as it's going to be a more commonly
and big mutex we use for ram states, but just leave it for later.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Helper to init PSS structures.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Introduce pss_channel for PageSearchStatus, define it as "the migration
channel to be used to transfer this host page".
We used to have rs->f, which is a mirror to MigrationState.to_dst_file.
After postcopy preempt initial version, rs->f can be dynamically changed
depending on which channel we want to use.
But that later work still doesn't grant full concurrency of sending pages
in e.g. different threads, because rs->f can either be the PRECOPY channel
or POSTCOPY channel. This needs to be per-thread too.
PageSearchStatus is actually a good piece of struct which we can leverage
if we want to have multiple threads sending pages. Sending a single guest
page may not make sense, so we make the granule to be "host page", and in
the PSS structure we allow specify a QEMUFile* to migrate a specific host
page. Then we open the possibility to specify different channels in
different threads with different PSS structures.
The PSS prefix can be slightly misleading here because e.g. for the
upcoming usage of postcopy channel/thread it's not "searching" (or,
scanning) at all but sending the explicit page that was requested. However
since PSS existed for some years keep it as-is until someone complains.
This patch mostly (simply) replace rs->f with pss->pss_channel only. No
functional change intended for this patch yet. But it does prepare to
finally drop rs->f, and make ram_save_guest_page() thread safe.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Migration code has a lot to do with host pages. Teaching PSS core about
the idea of host page helps a lot and makes the code clean. Meanwhile,
this prepares for the future changes that can leverage the new PSS helpers
that this patch introduces to send host page in another thread.
Three more fields are introduced for this:
(1) host_page_sending: this is set to true when QEMU is sending a host
page, false otherwise.
(2) host_page_{start|end}: these point to the start/end of host page
we're sending, and it's only valid when host_page_sending==true.
For example, when we look up the next dirty page on the ramblock, with
host_page_sending==true, we'll not try to look for anything beyond the
current host page boundary. This can be slightly efficient than current
code because currently we'll set pss->page to next dirty bit (which can be
over current host page boundary) and reset it to host page boundary if we
found it goes beyond that.
With above, we can easily make migration_bitmap_find_dirty() self contained
by updating pss->page properly. rs* parameter is removed because it's not
even used in old code.
When sending a host page, we should use the pss helpers like this:
- pss_host_page_prepare(pss): called before sending host page
- pss_within_range(pss): whether we're still working on the cur host page?
- pss_host_page_finish(pss): called after sending a host page
Then we can use ram_save_target_page() to save one small page.
Currently ram_save_host_page() is still the only user. If there'll be
another function to send host page (e.g. in return path thread) in the
future, it should follow the same style.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To prepare for thread-safety on page accountings, at least below counters
need to be accessed only atomically, they are:
ram_counters.transferred
ram_counters.duplicate
ram_counters.normal
ram_counters.postcopy_bytes
There are a lot of other counters but they won't be accessed outside
migration thread, then they're still safe to be accessed without atomic
ops.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Don't take the bitmap mutex when sending pages, or when being throttled by
migration_rate_limit() (which is a bit tricky to call it here in ram code,
but seems still helpful).
It prepares for the possibility of concurrently sending pages in >1 threads
using the function ram_save_host_page() because all threads may need the
bitmap_mutex to operate on bitmaps, so that either sendmsg() or any kind of
qemu_sem_wait() blocking for one thread will not block the other from
progressing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Removing referencing to RAMState.f in compress_page_with_multi_thread() and
flush_compressed_data().
Compression code by default isn't compatible with having >1 channels (or it
won't currently know which channel to flush the compressed data), so to
make it simple we always flush on the default to_dst_file port until
someone wants to add >1 ports support, as rs->f right now can really
change (after postcopy preempt is introduced).
There should be no functional change at all after patch applied, since as
long as rs->f referenced in compression code, it must be to_dst_file.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
The 2nd check on RAM_SAVE_FLAG_CONTINUE is a bit redundant. Use a boolean
to be clearer.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
The major change is to replace "!save_page_use_compression()" with
"xbzrle_enabled" to make it clear.
Reasonings:
(1) When compression enabled, "!save_page_use_compression()" is exactly the
same as checking "xbzrle_enabled".
(2) When compression disabled, "!save_page_use_compression()" always return
true. We used to try calling the xbzrle code, but after this change we
won't, and we shouldn't need to.
Since at it, drop the xbzrle_enabled check in xbzrle_cache_zero_page()
because with this change it's not needed anymore.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Add the helper to show that postcopy preempt enabled, meanwhile active.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Any call to ram_find_and_save_block() needs to take the bitmap mutex. We
used to not take it for most of ram_save_complete() because we thought
we're the only one left using the bitmap, but it's not true after the
preempt full patchset applied, since the return path can be taking it too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>
Multifd thread model does not work for compression, explicitly disable it.
Note that previuosly even we can enable both of them, nothing will go
wrong, because the compression code has higher priority so multifd feature
will just be ignored. Now we'll fail even earlier at config time so the
user should be aware of the consequence better.
Note that there can be a slight chance of breaking existing users, but
let's assume they're not majority and not serious users, or they should
have found that multifd is not working already.
With that, we can safely drop the check in ram_save_target_page() for using
multifd, because when multifd=on then compression=off, then the removed
check on save_page_use_compression() will also always return false too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
When starting ram saving procedure (especially at the completion phase),
always set last_seen_block to non-NULL to make sure we can always correctly
detect the case where "we've migrated all the dirty pages".
Then we'll guarantee both last_seen_block and pss.block will be valid
always before the loop starts.
See the comment in the code for some details.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
This reverts commit cfd66f30fb.
The simplification of unqueue_page() introduced a bug that sometimes
breaks migration on s390x hosts.
The problem is not fully understood yet, but since we are already in
the freeze for QEMU 7.1 and we need something working there, let's
revert this patch for the upcoming release. The optimization can be
redone later again in a proper way if necessary.
Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099934
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220802061949.331576-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Some errors, like the lack of Scatter-Gather support by the network
interface(NETIF_F_SG) may cause sendmsg(...,MSG_ZEROCOPY) to fail on using
zero-copy, which causes it to fall back to the default copying mechanism.
After each full dirty-bitmap scan there should be a zero-copy flush
happening, which checks for errors each of the previous calls to
sendmsg(...,MSG_ZEROCOPY). If all of them failed to use zero-copy, then
increment dirty_sync_missed_zero_copy migration stat to let the user know
about it.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220711211112.18951-4-leobras@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
With preemption mode on, when we see a postcopy request that was requesting
for exactly the page that we have preempted before (so we've partially sent
the page already via PRECOPY channel and it got preempted by another
postcopy request), currently we drop the request so that after all the
other postcopy requests are serviced then we'll go back to precopy stream
and start to handle that.
We dropped the request because we can't send it via postcopy channel since
the precopy channel already contains partial of the data, and we can only
send a huge page via one channel as a whole. We can't split a huge page
into two channels.
That's a very corner case and that works, but there's a change on the order
of postcopy requests that we handle since we're postponing this (unlucky)
postcopy request to be later than the other queued postcopy requests. The
problem is there's a possibility that when the guest was very busy, the
postcopy queue can be always non-empty, it means this dropped request will
never be handled until the end of postcopy migration. So, there's a chance
that there's one dest QEMU vcpu thread waiting for a page fault for an
extremely long time just because it's unluckily accessing the specific page
that was preempted before.
The worst case time it needs can be as long as the whole postcopy migration
procedure. It's extremely unlikely to happen, but when it happens it's not
good.
The root cause of this problem is because we treat pss->postcopy_requested
variable as with two meanings bound together, as the variable shows:
1. Whether this page request is urgent, and,
2. Which channel we should use for this page request.
With the old code, when we set postcopy_requested it means either both (1)
and (2) are true, or both (1) and (2) are false. We can never have (1)
and (2) to have different values.
However it doesn't necessarily need to be like that. It's very legal that
there's one request that has (1) very high urgency, but (2) we'd like to
use the precopy channel. Just like the corner case we were discussing
above.
To differenciate the two meanings better, introduce a new field called
postcopy_target_channel, showing which channel we should use for this page
request, so as to cover the old meaning (2) only. Then we leave the
postcopy_requested variable to stand only for meaning (1), which is the
urgency of this page request.
With this change, we can easily boost priority of a preempted precopy page
as long as we know that page is also requested as a postcopy page. So with
the new approach in get_queued_page() instead of dropping that request, we
send it right away with the precopy channel so we get back the ordering of
the page faults just like how they're requested on dest.
Reported-by: Manish Mishra <manish.mishra@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Manish Mishra <manish.mishra@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220707185520.27583-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Add a property field that can conditionally disable the "break sending huge
page" behavior in postcopy preemption. By default it's enabled.
It should only be used for debugging purposes, and we should never remove
the "x-" prefix.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Manish Mishra <manish.mishra@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220707185511.27366-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
This patch enables postcopy-preempt feature.
It contains two major changes to the migration logic:
(1) Postcopy requests are now sent via a different socket from precopy
background migration stream, so as to be isolated from very high page
request delays.
(2) For huge page enabled hosts: when there's postcopy requests, they can now
intercept a partial sending of huge host pages on src QEMU.
After this patch, we'll live migrate a VM with two channels for postcopy: (1)
PRECOPY channel, which is the default channel that transfers background pages;
and (2) POSTCOPY channel, which only transfers requested pages.
There's no strict rule of which channel to use, e.g., if a requested page is
already being transferred on precopy channel, then we will keep using the same
precopy channel to transfer the page even if it's explicitly requested. In 99%
of the cases we'll prioritize the channels so we send requested page via the
postcopy channel as long as possible.
On the source QEMU, when we found a postcopy request, we'll interrupt the
PRECOPY channel sending process and quickly switch to the POSTCOPY channel.
After we serviced all the high priority postcopy pages, we'll switch back to
PRECOPY channel so that we'll continue to send the interrupted huge page again.
There's no new thread introduced on src QEMU.
On the destination QEMU, one new thread is introduced to receive page data from
the postcopy specific socket (done in the preparation patch).
This patch has a side effect: after sending postcopy pages, previously we'll
assume the guest will access follow up pages so we'll keep sending from there.
Now it's changed. Instead of going on with a postcopy requested page, we'll go
back and continue sending the precopy huge page (which can be intercepted by a
postcopy request so the huge page can be sent partially before).
Whether that's a problem is debatable, because "assuming the guest will
continue to access the next page" may not really suite when huge pages are
used, especially if the huge page is large (e.g. 1GB pages). So that locality
hint is much meaningless if huge pages are used.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220707185504.27203-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Create a new socket for postcopy to be prepared to send postcopy requested
pages via this specific channel, so as to not get blocked by precopy pages.
A new thread is also created on dest qemu to receive data from this new channel
based on the ram_load_postcopy() routine.
The ram_load_postcopy(POSTCOPY) branch and the thread has not started to
function, and that'll be done in follow up patches.
Cleanup the new sockets on both src/dst QEMUs, meanwhile look after the new
thread too to make sure it'll be recycled properly.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220707185502.27149-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
dgilbert: With Peter's fix to quieten compiler warning on
start_migration
Now that all QEMUFile callbacks are removed, the entire concept can be
deleted.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
The qemu_update_position method name gives the misleading impression
that it is changing the current file offset. Most of the files are
just streams, however, so there's no concept of a file offset in the
general case.
What this method is actually used for is to report on the number of
bytes that have been transferred out of band from the main I/O methods.
This new name better reflects this purpose.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
This removes one further custom impl of QEMUFile, in favour of a
QIOChannel based impl.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Even though multifd_send_sync_main() currently emits error_reports, it's
callers don't really check it before continuing.
Change multifd_send_sync_main() to return -1 on error and 0 on success.
Also change all it's callers to make use of this change and possibly fail
earlier.
(This change is important to next patch on multifd zero copy
implementation, to make it sure an error in zero-copy flush does not go
unnoticed.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220513062836.965425-7-leobras@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Clang spotted an & that should have been an &&; fix it.
Reported by: David Binderman / https://gitlab.com/dcb
Fixes: 65dacaa04f ("migration: introduce save_normal_page()")
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/963
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220406102515.96320-1-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Will be reused in postcopy fast load thread.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220331150857.74406-6-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
This boolean flag shows whether the current page during migration is triggered
by postcopy or not. Then in ram_save_host_page() and deeper stack we'll be
able to have a reference on the priority of this page.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220331150857.74406-4-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
g_new(T, n) is neater than g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n). It's also safer,
for two reasons. One, it catches multiplication overflowing size_t.
Two, it returns T * rather than void *, which lets the compiler catch
more type errors.
This commit only touches allocations with size arguments of the form
sizeof(T).
Patch created mechanically with:
$ spatch --in-place --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/use-g_new-etc.cocci \
--macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h FILES...
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220315144156.1595462-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgalyuk@ispras.ru>
Static variable is very unfriendly to threading of ram_block_from_stream().
Move it into MigrationIncomingState.
Make the incoming state pointer to be passed over to ram_block_from_stream() on
both caller sites.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220301083925.33483-8-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
In ram_load_postcopy() we'll try to detect non-same-page case and dump error.
This error is very helpful for debugging. Adding ramblock & offset into the
error log too.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220301083925.33483-6-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
dgilbert: Fix up long line
