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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 05/12] migration: introduce postcopy-only pe


From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 05/12] migration: introduce postcopy-only pending
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:47:36 +0300
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12.03.2018 18:30, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
* Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy (address@hidden) wrote:
There would be savevm states (dirty-bitmap) which can migrate only in
postcopy stage. The corresponding pending is introduced here.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
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[...]

  static MigIterateState migration_iteration_run(MigrationState *s)
  {
-    uint64_t pending_size, pend_post, pend_nonpost;
+    uint64_t pending_size, pend_pre, pend_compat, pend_post;
      bool in_postcopy = s->state == MIGRATION_STATUS_POSTCOPY_ACTIVE;
- qemu_savevm_state_pending(s->to_dst_file, s->threshold_size,
-                              &pend_nonpost, &pend_post);
-    pending_size = pend_nonpost + pend_post;
+    qemu_savevm_state_pending(s->to_dst_file, s->threshold_size, &pend_pre,
+                              &pend_compat, &pend_post);
+    pending_size = pend_pre + pend_compat + pend_post;
trace_migrate_pending(pending_size, s->threshold_size,
-                          pend_post, pend_nonpost);
+                          pend_pre, pend_compat, pend_post);
if (pending_size && pending_size >= s->threshold_size) {
          /* Still a significant amount to transfer */
          if (migrate_postcopy() && !in_postcopy &&
-            pend_nonpost <= s->threshold_size &&
-            atomic_read(&s->start_postcopy)) {
+            pend_pre <= s->threshold_size &&
+            (atomic_read(&s->start_postcopy) ||
+             (pend_pre + pend_compat <= s->threshold_size)))
This change does something different from the description;
it causes a postcopy_start even if the user never ran the postcopy-start
command; so sorry, we can't do that; because postcopy for RAM is
something that users can enable but only switch into when they've given
up on it completing normally.

However, I guess that leaves you with a problem; which is what happens
to the system when you've run out of pend_pre+pend_compat but can't
complete because pend_post is non-0; so I don't know the answer to that.



Hmm. Here, we go to postcopy only if "pend_pre + pend_compat <= s->threshold_size". Pre-patch, in this case we will go to migration_completion(). So, precopy stage is finishing anyway. So, we want in this case to finish ram migration like it was finished by migration_completion(), and then, run postcopy, which will handle only dirty bitmaps, yes?

Hmm2. Looked through migration_completion(), I don't understand, how it finishes ram migration without postcopy. It calls qemu_savevm_state_complete_precopy(), which skips states with has_postcopy=true, which is ram...

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Best regards,
Vladimir




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