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Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] migration: UFFD write-tracking migration/snapshots


From: Peter Xu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] migration: UFFD write-tracking migration/snapshots
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:02:26 -0500

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:53:13PM +0300, Andrey Gruzdev wrote:
> First are series of runs without scan-rate-limiting.patch.
> Windows 10:
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 131913   |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 106      |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 362      |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 619      |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 28       |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 1        |                                        |
>         64 -> 127        : 2        |                                        |
> 
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 199273   |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 190      |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 425      |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 927      |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 69       |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 3        |                                        |
>         64 -> 127        : 16       |                                        |
>        128 -> 255        : 2        |                                        |
> 
> Ubuntu 20.04:
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 104954   |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 9        |                                        |
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 147159   |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 13       |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 0        |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 0        |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 0        |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 0        |                                        |
>         64 -> 127        : 1        |                                        |
> 
> 
> Here are runs with scan-rate-limiting.patch.
> Windows 10:
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 234492   |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 66       |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 219      |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 109      |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 0        |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 0        |                                        |
>         64 -> 127        : 1        |                                        |
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 183171   |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 109      |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 281      |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 444      |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 3        |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 1        |                                        |
> 
> Ubuntu 20.04:
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 92224    |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 9        |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 0        |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 0        |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 1        |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 0        |                                        |
>         64 -> 127        : 1        |                                        |
> 
>      msecs               : count     distribution
>          0 -> 1          : 97021    |****************************************|
>          2 -> 3          : 7        |                                        |
>          4 -> 7          : 0        |                                        |
>          8 -> 15         : 0        |                                        |
>         16 -> 31         : 0        |                                        |
>         32 -> 63         : 0        |                                        |
>         64 -> 127        : 0        |                                        |
>        128 -> 255        : 1        |                                        |
> 
> So, initial variant of rate-limiting makes some positive effect, but not very
> noticible. Interesting is the case of Windows guest, why the difference is so 
> large,
> compared to Linux. The reason (theoretically) might be some of virtio or QXL 
> drivers,
> hard to say. At least Windows VM has been configured with a set of Hyper-V
> enlightments, there's nothing to improve in domain config.
> 
> For Linux guests latencies are good enough without any additional efforts.

Interesting...

> 
> Also, I've missed some code to deal with snapshotting of suspended guest, so 
> I'll made
> v7 series with the fix and also try to add more effective solution to reduce 
> millisecond-grade
> latencies.
> 
> And yes, I've used bpftrace-like tool - BCC from iovisor with python 
> frontend. Seems a bit more
> friendly then bpftrace.

Do you think it's a good idea to also include your measurement script when
posting v7?  It could be a well fit for scripts/, I think.

Seems 6.0 dev window is open; hopefully Dave or Juan would have time to look at
this series soon.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu




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