Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] migration: Fix calculation of bytes_transferred

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/12/2010 08:12 AM, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> When a page with all identical bytes is transferred, it is counted
> as a full page (TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) although only one byte is actually
> sent. Fix this by changing ram_save_block() to return the number of
> bytes sent instead of a boolean value. This makes bandwidth
> estimation, and consequently downtime estimation, more precise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Riteau<address@hidden>
>    

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> ---
>   arch_init.c |   21 ++++++++++++---------
>   1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
> index cf6b7b0..76317af 100644
> --- a/arch_init.c
> +++ b/arch_init.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static int ram_save_block(QEMUFile *f)
>       static ram_addr_t current_addr = 0;
>       ram_addr_t saved_addr = current_addr;
>       ram_addr_t addr = 0;
> -    int found = 0;
> +    int bytes_sent = 0;
>
>       while (addr<  last_ram_offset) {
>           if (cpu_physical_memory_get_dirty(current_addr, 
> MIGRATION_DIRTY_FLAG)) {
> @@ -123,19 +123,20 @@ static int ram_save_block(QEMUFile *f)
>               if (is_dup_page(p, *p)) {
>                   qemu_put_be64(f, current_addr | RAM_SAVE_FLAG_COMPRESS);
>                   qemu_put_byte(f, *p);
> +                bytes_sent = 1;
>               } else {
>                   qemu_put_be64(f, current_addr | RAM_SAVE_FLAG_PAGE);
>                   qemu_put_buffer(f, p, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
> +                bytes_sent = TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
>               }
>
> -            found = 1;
>               break;
>           }
>           addr += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
>           current_addr = (saved_addr + addr) % last_ram_offset;
>       }
>
> -    return found;
> +    return bytes_sent;
>   }
>
>   static uint64_t bytes_transferred;
> @@ -206,11 +207,11 @@ int ram_save_live(Monitor *mon, QEMUFile *f, int stage, 
> void *opaque)
>       bwidth = qemu_get_clock_ns(rt_clock);
>
>       while (!qemu_file_rate_limit(f)) {
> -        int ret;
> +        int bytes_sent;
>
> -        ret = ram_save_block(f);
> -        bytes_transferred += ret * TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
> -        if (ret == 0) { /* no more blocks */
> +        bytes_sent = ram_save_block(f);
> +        bytes_transferred += bytes_sent;
> +        if (bytes_sent == 0) { /* no more blocks */
>               break;
>           }
>       }
> @@ -226,9 +227,11 @@ int ram_save_live(Monitor *mon, QEMUFile *f, int stage, 
> void *opaque)
>
>       /* try transferring iterative blocks of memory */
>       if (stage == 3) {
> +        int bytes_sent;
> +
>           /* flush all remaining blocks regardless of rate limiting */
> -        while (ram_save_block(f) != 0) {
> -            bytes_transferred += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
> +        while ((bytes_sent = ram_save_block(f)) != 0) {
> +            bytes_transferred += bytes_sent;
>           }
>           cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_tracking(0);
>       }
>