[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/10] migration: fix calculating xbzrle_counters.cache_miss_rate

[guangrong . xiao]

From: Xiao Guangrong <address@hidden>

As Peter pointed out:
| - xbzrle_counters.cache_miss is done in save_xbzrle_page(), so it's
|   per-guest-page granularity
|
| - RAMState.iterations is done for each ram_find_and_save_block(), so
|   it's per-host-page granularity
|
| An example is that when we migrate a 2M huge page in the guest, we
| will only increase the RAMState.iterations by 1 (since
| ram_find_and_save_block() will be called once), but we might increase
| xbzrle_counters.cache_miss for 2M/4K=512 times (we'll call
| save_xbzrle_page() that many times) if all the pages got cache miss.
| Then IMHO the cache miss rate will be 512/1=51200% (while it should
| actually be just 100% cache miss).

And he also suggested as xbzrle_counters.cache_miss_rate is the only
user of rs->iterations we can adapt it to count target guest page
numbers

After that, rename 'iterations' to 'target_page_count' to better reflect
its meaning

Suggested-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <address@hidden>
---
 migration/ram.c | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 1d54285501..17c3eed445 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -300,10 +300,10 @@ struct RAMState {
     uint64_t num_dirty_pages_period;
     /* xbzrle misses since the beginning of the period */
     uint64_t xbzrle_cache_miss_prev;
-    /* number of iterations at the beginning of period */
-    uint64_t iterations_prev;
-    /* Iterations since start */
-    uint64_t iterations;
+    /* total handled target pages at the beginning of period */
+    uint64_t target_page_count_prev;
+    /* total handled target pages since start */
+    uint64_t target_page_count;
     /* number of dirty bits in the bitmap */
     uint64_t migration_dirty_pages;
     /* protects modification of the bitmap */
@@ -1585,19 +1585,19 @@ uint64_t ram_pagesize_summary(void)
 
 static void migration_update_rates(RAMState *rs, int64_t end_time)
 {
-    uint64_t iter_count = rs->iterations - rs->iterations_prev;
+    uint64_t page_count = rs->target_page_count - rs->target_page_count_prev;
 
     /* calculate period counters */
     ram_counters.dirty_pages_rate = rs->num_dirty_pages_period * 1000
                 / (end_time - rs->time_last_bitmap_sync);
 
-    if (!iter_count) {
+    if (!page_count) {
         return;
     }
 
     if (migrate_use_xbzrle()) {
         xbzrle_counters.cache_miss_rate = (double)(xbzrle_counters.cache_miss -
-            rs->xbzrle_cache_miss_prev) / iter_count;
+            rs->xbzrle_cache_miss_prev) / page_count;
         rs->xbzrle_cache_miss_prev = xbzrle_counters.cache_miss;
     }
 }
@@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ static void migration_bitmap_sync(RAMState *rs)
 
         migration_update_rates(rs, end_time);
 
-        rs->iterations_prev = rs->iterations;
+        rs->target_page_count_prev = rs->target_page_count;
 
         /* reset period counters */
         rs->time_last_bitmap_sync = end_time;
@@ -3197,7 +3197,7 @@ static int ram_save_iterate(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
             done = 1;
             break;
         }
-        rs->iterations++;
+        rs->target_page_count += pages;
 
         /* we want to check in the 1st loop, just in case it was the 1st time
            and we had to sync the dirty bitmap.
-- 
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