[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] Exit loop if we have been there too long

[Juan Quintela]

Checking each 64 pages is a random magic number as good as any other.
We don't want to test too many times, but on the other hand,
qemu_get_clock_ns() is not so expensive either.  We want to be sure
that we spent less than 50ms (half of buffered_file timer), if we
spent more than 100ms, all the accounting got wrong.

Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
---
 arch_init.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
index 424efe7..7de1abf 100644
--- a/arch_init.c
+++ b/arch_init.c
@@ -294,12 +294,15 @@ static void sort_ram_list(void)
     g_free(blocks);
 }

+#define MAX_WAIT 50 /* ms, half buffered_file limit */
+
 int ram_save_live(QEMUFile *f, int stage, void *opaque)
 {
     ram_addr_t addr;
     uint64_t bytes_transferred_last;
     double bwidth = 0;
     int ret;
+    int i;

     if (stage < 0) {
         memory_global_dirty_log_stop();
@@ -339,6 +342,7 @@ int ram_save_live(QEMUFile *f, int stage, void *opaque)
     bytes_transferred_last = bytes_transferred;
     bwidth = qemu_get_clock_ns(rt_clock);

+    i = 0;
     while ((ret = qemu_file_rate_limit(f)) == 0) {
         int bytes_sent;

@@ -347,6 +351,19 @@ int ram_save_live(QEMUFile *f, int stage, void *opaque)
         if (bytes_sent == 0) { /* no more blocks */
             break;
         }
+        /* we want to check in the 1st loop, just in case it was the 1st time
+           and we had to sync the dirty bitmap.
+           qemu_get_clock_ns() is a bit expensive, so we only check each some
+           iterations
+        */
+        if ((i & 63) == 0) {
+            uint64_t t1 = (qemu_get_clock_ns(rt_clock) - bwidth) / 1000000;
+            if (t1 > MAX_WAIT) {
+                DPRINTF("big wait: %ld milliseconds, %d iterations\n", t1, i);
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        i++;
     }

     if (ret < 0) {
-- 
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