Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V6 10/10] migration: postcopy_blocktime documentation

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Alexey Perevalov (address@hidden) wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Perevalov <address@hidden>
> ---
>  docs/migration.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
> index 1b940a8..2207c6d 100644
> --- a/docs/migration.txt
> +++ b/docs/migration.txt
> @@ -402,6 +402,16 @@ will now cause the transition from precopy to postcopy.
>  It can be issued immediately after migration is started or any
>  time later on.  Issuing it after the end of a migration is harmless.
>  
> +Blocktime is a postcopy live migration metric, intended to show
> +how long the source vCPU was in state of interruptable sleep due to 
> pagefault.

                ^^^^^^
I think it's just 'how long the vCPU' - I don't think 'source' adds
anything.

> +This value is calculated on destination side.
> +To enable postcopy blocktime calculation, enter following command on 
> destination
> +monitor:
> +
> +migrate_set_capability postcopy-blocktime on
> +
> +Postcopy blocktime can be retrieved by query-migrate qmp command.
> +

I think other than that it's OK.



Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>

>  Note: During the postcopy phase, the bandwidth limits set using
>  migrate_set_speed is ignored (to avoid delaying requested pages that
>  the destination is waiting for).
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK