Migration bandwidth is a very important value to live migration. It's
because it's one of the major factors that we'll make decision on when to
switchover to destination in a precopy process.
This value is currently estimated by QEMU during the whole live migration
process by monitoring how fast we were sending the data. This can be the
most accurate bandwidth if in the ideal world, where we're always feeding
unlimited data to the migration channel, and then it'll be limited to the
bandwidth that is available.
However in reality it may be very different, e.g., over a 10Gbps network we
can see query-migrate showing migration bandwidth of only a few tens of
MB/s just because there are plenty of other things the migration thread
might be doing. For example, the migration thread can be busy scanning
zero pages, or it can be fetching dirty bitmap from other external dirty
sources (like vhost or KVM). It means we may not be pushing data as much
as possible to migration channel, so the bandwidth estimated from "how many
data we sent in the channel" can be dramatically inaccurate sometimes.
With that, the decision to switchover will be affected, by assuming that we
may not be able to switchover at all with such a low bandwidth, but in
reality we can.
The migration may not even converge at all with the downtime specified,
with that wrong estimation of bandwidth, keeping iterations forever with a
low estimation of bandwidth.
The issue is QEMU itself may not be able to avoid those uncertainties on
measuing the real "available migration bandwidth". At least not something
I can think of so far.
One way to fix this is when the user is fully aware of the available
bandwidth, then we can allow the user to help providing an accurate value.
For example, if the user has a dedicated channel of 10Gbps for migration
for this specific VM, the user can specify this bandwidth so QEMU can
always do the calculation based on this fact, trusting the user as long as
specified. It may not be the exact bandwidth when switching over (in which
case qemu will push migration data as fast as possible), but much better
than QEMU trying to wildly guess, especially when very wrong.
A new parameter "avail-switchover-bandwidth" is introduced just for this.
So when the user specified this parameter, instead of trusting the
estimated value from QEMU itself (based on the QEMUFile send speed), it
trusts the user more by using this value to decide when to switchover,
assuming that we'll have such bandwidth available then.
Note that specifying this value will not throttle the bandwidth for
switchover yet, so QEMU will always use the full bandwidth possible for
sending switchover data, assuming that should always be the most important
way to use the network at that time.
This can resolve issues like "unconvergence migration" which is caused by
hilarious low "migration bandwidth" detected for whatever reason.
Reported-by: Zhiyi Guo <zhguo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231010221922.40638-1-peterx@redhat.com>
This adds GRAPH_RDLOCK annotations to declare that callers of
bdrv_first_blk() and bdrv_is_root_node() need to hold a reader lock
for the graph. These functions are the only functions in block-backend.c
that access the parent list of a node.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230929145157.45443-5-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Extend query-migrate to provide throttle time and estimated
ring full time with dirty-limit capability enabled, through which
we can observe if dirty limit take effect during live migration.
Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <168733225273.5845.15871826788879741674-8@git.sr.ht>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Introduce "vcpu-dirty-limit" migration parameter used
to limit dirty page rate during live migration.
"vcpu-dirty-limit" and "x-vcpu-dirty-limit-period" are
two dirty-limit-related migration parameters, which can
be set before and during live migration by qmp
migrate-set-parameters.
This two parameters are used to help implement the dirty
page rate limit algo of migration.
Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <168618975839.6361.17407633874747688653-3@git.sr.ht>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Introduce "x-vcpu-dirty-limit-period" migration experimental
parameter, which is in the range of 1 to 1000ms and used to
make dirtyrate calculation period configurable.
Currently with the "x-vcpu-dirty-limit-period" varies, the
total time of live migration changes, test results show the
optimal value of "x-vcpu-dirty-limit-period" ranges from
500ms to 1000 ms. "x-vcpu-dirty-limit-period" should be made
stable once it proves best value can not be determined with
developer's experiments.
Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <168618975839.6361.17407633874747688653-2@git.sr.ht>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
We don't allow to use x-colo capability when replication is not
configured. So, no reason to build COLO when replication is disabled,
it's unusable in this case.
Note also that the check in migrate_caps_check() is not the only
restriction: some functions in migration/colo.c will just abort if
called with not defined CONFIG_REPLICATION, for example:
migration_iteration_finish()
case MIGRATION_STATUS_COLO:
migrate_start_colo_process()
colo_process_checkpoint()
abort()
It could probably make sense to have possibility to enable COLO without
REPLICATION, but this requires deeper audit of colo & replication code,
which may be done later if needed.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@treblig.org>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428194928.1426370-4-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
It has nothing to do with migration, except for the "migrate" in the
name of the command. Move it with the rest of the ui commands.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
It is only used there, so we can make it static.
Once there, remove spice.h that it is not used.
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
---
fix David Edmonson ui/qemu-spice.h unintended removal
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230207075115.1525-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
This moves these commands from MAINTAINERS sections "Human
Monitor (HMP)" and "QMP" to "Migration".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230124121946.1139465-18-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
