rdma: introduce capability x-rdma-pin-all

This capability allows you to disable dynamic chunk registration
for better throughput on high-performance links.

For example, using an 8GB RAM virtual machine with all 8GB of memory in
active use and the VM itself is completely idle using a 40 gbps infiniband link:

1. x-rdma-pin-all disabled total time: approximately 7.5 seconds @ 9.5 Gbps
2. x-rdma-pin-all enabled total time: approximately 4 seconds @ 26 Gbps

These numbers would of course scale up to whatever size virtual machine
you have to migrate using RDMA.

Enabling this feature does *not* have any measurable affect on
migration *downtime*. This is because, without this feature, all of the
memory will have already been registered already in advance during
the bulk round and does not need to be re-registered during the successive
iteration rounds.

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Tested-by: Michael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
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Michael R. Hines 2013-06-25 21:35:36 -04:00 committed by Juan Quintela
parent 43487c678d
commit 60d9222c8f
3 changed files with 17 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ void migrate_add_blocker(Error *reason);
*/
void migrate_del_blocker(Error *reason);
bool migrate_rdma_pin_all(void);
int xbzrle_encode_buffer(uint8_t *old_buf, uint8_t *new_buf, int slen,
uint8_t *dst, int dlen);
int xbzrle_decode_buffer(uint8_t *src, int slen, uint8_t *dst, int dlen);

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@ -476,6 +476,15 @@ void qmp_migrate_set_downtime(double value, Error **errp)
max_downtime = (uint64_t)value;
}
bool migrate_rdma_pin_all(void)
{
MigrationState *s;
s = migrate_get_current();
return s->enabled_capabilities[MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_X_RDMA_PIN_ALL];
}
int migrate_use_xbzrle(void)
{
MigrationState *s;

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@ -608,10 +608,15 @@
# This feature allows us to minimize migration traffic for certain work
# loads, by sending compressed difference of the pages
#
# @x-rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
# mlock()'d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for usage.
# Disabled by default. Experimental: may (or may not) be renamed after
# further testing is complete. (since 1.6)
#
# Since: 1.2
##
{ 'enum': 'MigrationCapability',
'data': ['xbzrle'] }
'data': ['xbzrle', 'x-rdma-pin-all'] }
##
# @MigrationCapabilityStatus