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[Qemu-devel] [PULL 11/16] migration: Add interface to control compressio


From: Juan Quintela
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 11/16] migration: Add interface to control compression
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 18:46:11 +0200

From: Liang Li <address@hidden>

The multiple compression threads can be turned on/off through
qmp and hmp interface before doing live migration.

Signed-off-by: Liang Li <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Dr.David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
---
 migration/migration.c |  7 +++++--
 qapi-schema.json      | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index 19409e6..dc7db87 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -611,8 +611,11 @@ bool migrate_zero_blocks(void)

 bool migrate_use_compression(void)
 {
-    /* Disable compression before the patch series are applied */
-    return false;
+    MigrationState *s;
+
+    s = migrate_get_current();
+
+    return s->enabled_capabilities[MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_COMPRESS];
 }

 int migrate_compress_level(void)
diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
index 27ec988..83f0b4a 100644
--- a/qapi-schema.json
+++ b/qapi-schema.json
@@ -515,13 +515,22 @@
 #          to enable the capability on the source VM. The feature is disabled 
by
 #          default. (since 1.6)
 #
+# @compress: Use multiple compression threads to accelerate live migration.
+#          This feature can help to reduce the migration traffic, by sending
+#          compressed pages. Please note that if compress and xbzrle are both
+#          on, compress only takes effect in the ram bulk stage, after that,
+#          it will be disabled and only xbzrle takes effect, this can help to
+#          minimize migration traffic. The feature is disabled by default.
+#          (since 2.4 )
+#
 # @auto-converge: If enabled, QEMU will automatically throttle down the guest
 #          to speed up convergence of RAM migration. (since 1.6)
 #
 # Since: 1.2
 ##
 { 'enum': 'MigrationCapability',
-  'data': ['xbzrle', 'rdma-pin-all', 'auto-converge', 'zero-blocks'] }
+  'data': ['xbzrle', 'rdma-pin-all', 'auto-converge', 'zero-blocks',
+           'compress'] }

 ##
 # @MigrationCapabilityStatus
-- 
2.4.0




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