Postcopy handles huge pages in a special way that currently we can only have
one "channel" to transfer the page.
It's because when we install pages using UFFDIO_COPY, we need to have the whole
huge page ready, it also means we need to have a temp huge page when trying to
receive the whole content of the page.
Currently all maintainance around this tmp page is global: firstly we'll
allocate a temp huge page, then we maintain its status mostly within
ram_load_postcopy().
To enable multiple channels for postcopy, the first thing we need to do is to
prepare N temp huge pages as caching, one for each channel.
Meanwhile we need to maintain the tmp huge page status per-channel too.
To give some example, some local variables maintained in ram_load_postcopy()
are listed; they are responsible for maintaining temp huge page status:
- all_zero: this keeps whether this huge page contains all zeros
- target_pages: this counts how many target pages have been copied
- host_page: this keeps the host ptr for the page to install
Move all these fields to be together with the temp huge pages to form a new
structure called PostcopyTmpPage. Then for each (future) postcopy channel, we
need one structure to keep the state around.
For vanilla postcopy, obviously there's only one channel. It contains both
precopy and postcopy pages.
This patch teaches the dest migration node to start realize the possible number
of postcopy channels by introducing the "postcopy_channels" variable. Its
value is calculated when setup postcopy on dest node (during POSTCOPY_LISTEN
phase).
Vanilla postcopy will have channels=1, but when postcopy-preempt capability is
enabled (in the future), we will boost it to 2 because even during partial
sending of a precopy huge page we still want to preempt it and start sending
the postcopy requested page right away (so we start to keep two temp huge
pages; more if we want to enable multifd). In this patch there's a TODO marked
for that; so far the channels is always set to 1.
We need to send one "host huge page" on one channel only and we cannot split
them, because otherwise the data upon the same huge page can locate on more
than one channel so we need more complicated logic to manage. One temp host
huge page for each channel will be enough for us for now.
Postcopy will still always use the index=0 huge page even after this patch.
However it prepares for the latter patches where it can start to use multiple
channels (which needs src intervention, because only src knows which channel we
should use).
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220301083925.33483-5-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
dgilbert: Fixed up long line
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