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Re: [Qemu-devel] Testing migration under stress
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Orit Wasserman |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Testing migration under stress |
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Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:12:25 +0200 |
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On 11/02/2012 05:10 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> Asking for some advice on the list.
>
> I have prorotype savevm and migration support ready for the pseries
> machine. They seem to work under simple circumstances (idle guest).
> To test them more extensively I've been attempting to perform live
> migrations (just over tcp->localhost) which the guest is active with
> something. In particular I've tried while using octave to do matrix
> multiply (so exercising the FP unit) and my colleague Alexey has tried
> during some video encoding.
>
As you are doing local migration one option is to setting the speed higher
than line speed , as we don't actually send the data, another is to set high
downtime.
> However, in each of these cases, we've found that the migration only
> completes and the source instance only stops after the intensive
> workload has (just) completed. What I surmise is happening is that
> the workload is touching memory pages fast enough that the ram
> migration code is never getting below the threshold to complete the
> migration until the guest is idle again.
>
The workload you chose is really bad for live migration, as all the guest does
is
dirtying his memory. I recommend looking for workload that does some networking
or disk IO.
Vinod succeeded running SwingBench and SLOB benchmarks that converged ok, I
don't
know if they run on pseries, but similar workload should be ok(small
database/warehouse).
We found out that SpecJbb on the other hand is hard to converge.
Web workload or video streaming also do the trick.
Cheers,
Orit
> Does anyone have some ideas for testing this better: workloads that
> are less likely to trigger this behaviour, or settings to tweak in the
> migration itself to make it more likely to complete migration while
> the workload is still active.
>
Re: [Qemu-devel] Testing migration under stress, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/11/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] Testing migration under stress, Juan Quintela, 2012/11/02