Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/3] Introduce COLO-compare

[Li Zhijian]

On 03/30/2016 08:05 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Zhang Chen (address@hidden) wrote:
> > COLO-compare is a part of COLO project. It is used
> > to compare the network package to help COLO decide
> > whether to do checkpoint.
>
> Hi Zhang Chen,
>    I've put comments on the individual patches, but some more general things:
>
>    1) Please add a coment giving the example of the command line for the primary
>      and secondary use of this module - it helps make it easier to understand 
> the patches.
>
>    2) There's no tracing in here - please add some; I found when I tried to get
>      COLO working I needed to use lots of tracing and debugging to understand 
> the
>      packet flow.
>
>    3) Add comments; e.g. for each function say which thread is using it and 
> where
>       the packets are coming from; e.g.
>          called from the main thread on the primary for packets arriving over 
> the socket
>          from the secondary.
>
>       There's just so many packets going in so many directions it would make it
>       easier to follow.
>
>    4) A more fundamental problem is what happens if the secondary never sends 
> anything
>       on the socket, the result is you end up running until the end of the long 
> COLO
>       checkpoint without triggering a discompare - in my world I added a 
> timeout (400ms)
>       for an unmatched packet from the primary, where if no matching packet was 
> received
>       a checkpoint would be triggered.
>
>    5) I see the packet comparison is still the simple memcmpy that you had in 
> December;
>       are you planning on doing anything more complicated; you must be seing 
> most packets
>       miscompare?
>
> You can see my current world at; 
> https://github.com/orbitfp7/qemu/commits/orbit-wp4-colo-mar16
> which has my basic TCP comparison (it's only tracking incoming connections) and 
> I know it's
> not complete either.  It mostly works OK, although I've got an occasional seg
> (which makes me wonder if I need to add the conn_list_lock I see you added).  
> I'm also
> not doing any TCP reassembly which is probably needed.
Thank you very much for your comments.
I just see you tree, you put in a lot of work(tcp comparison enhance, 
sequence/acknowledge
number re-write, timeout...)

Actually, this compare module is just in a RFC stage(only including compare 
frame), there are
many works to be done:

1) Integrate to COLO frame(and Let COLO primary and secondary at running state)

2) ip segment defrag

3) comparison base on the sequence number(tcp and udp) if packet has
   Because tcp re-transmission is quit common. IRC, your code will compare the 
whole tcp
    packet(sequence number will be compare)

4) packet belongs to the same connection is sort by sequence number

5) Out-Of-Oder packet handle

6) cleanup the un-active conn_list which maybe closed. the simple way is to 
introduce a
   timer to record whether a connection have packet come within a timeout, 
connection gone
    beyond this timeout should be cleanup.

7) Dave point out above (4)

8) something I miss...

For Various reasons, not all the works can be done immediately, So we hope to 
discuss and
decide which function have the high priority.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

IMO, a compare frame and a COLO frame hack patch could be simple enough.

Thanks
Li

> Dave
>
> > v2:
> >   - add jhash.h
> >
> > v1:
> >   - initial patch
> >
> >
> > Zhang Chen (3):
> >    colo-compare: introduce colo compare initlization
> >    colo-compare: track connection and enqueue packet
> >    colo-compare: introduce packet comparison thread
> >
> >   include/qemu/jhash.h |  59 ++++
> >   net/Makefile.objs    |   1 +
> >   net/colo-compare.c   | 782 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   vl.c                 |   3 +-
> >   4 files changed, 844 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >   create mode 100644 include/qemu/jhash.h
> >   create mode 100644 net/colo-compare.c
> >
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> --
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
>
>
> .

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Best regards.
Li Zhijian (8555)