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Re: [PATCH v4 00/19] migration: Postcopy Preemption
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Re: [PATCH v4 00/19] migration: Postcopy Preemption |
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Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:57:37 +0100 |
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* Peter Xu (peterx@redhat.com) wrote:
> This is v4 of postcopy preempt series. It can also be found here:
>
> https://github.com/xzpeter/qemu/tree/postcopy-preempt
>
> RFC:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220119080929.39485-1-peterx@redhat.com
> V1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220216062809.57179-1-peterx@redhat.com
> V2:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220301083925.33483-1-peterx@redhat.com
> V3:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220330213908.26608-1-peterx@redhat.com
I've queued:
migration: Allow migrate-recover to run multiple times
migration: Move channel setup out of postcopy_try_recover()
migration: Export ram_load_postcopy()
migration: Move migrate_allow_multifd and helpers into migration.c
migration: Add pss.postcopy_requested status
migration: Drop multifd tls_hostname cache
migration: Postpone releasing MigrationState.hostname
> v4:
> - Fix a double-free on params.tls-creds when quitting qemu
> - Reorder patches to satisfy per-commit builds
>
> v3:
> - Rebased to master since many patches landed
> - Fixed one bug on postcopy recovery when preempt enabled, this is only
> found when I test with TLS+recovery, because TLS changed the timing.
> - Dropped patch:
> "migration: Fail postcopy preempt with TLS for now"
> - Added patches for TLS:
> - "migration: Postpone releasing MigrationState.hostname"
> - "migration: Drop multifd tls_hostname cache"
> - "migration: Enable TLS for preempt channel"
> - "migration: Export tls-[creds|hostname|authz] params to cmdline too"
> - "tests: Add postcopy tls migration test"
> - "tests: Add postcopy tls recovery migration test"
> - Added two more tests to the preempt test patch (tls, tls+recovery)
>
> Abstract
> ========
>
> This series added a new migration capability called "postcopy-preempt". It
> can
> be enabled when postcopy is enabled, and it'll simply (but greatly) speed up
> postcopy page requests handling process.
>
> Below are some initial postcopy page request latency measurements after the
> new series applied.
>
> For each page size, I measured page request latency for three cases:
>
> (a) Vanilla: the old postcopy
> (b) Preempt no-break-huge: preempt enabled,
> x-postcopy-preempt-break-huge=off
> (c) Preempt full: preempt enabled,
> x-postcopy-preempt-break-huge=on
> (this is the default option when preempt
> enabled)
>
> Here x-postcopy-preempt-break-huge parameter is just added in v2 so as to
> conditionally disable the behavior to break sending a precopy huge page for
> debugging purpose. So when it's off, postcopy will not preempt precopy
> sending a huge page, but still postcopy will use its own channel.
>
> I tested it separately to give a rough idea on which part of the change
> helped how much of it. The overall benefit should be the comparison
> between case (a) and (c).
>
> |-----------+---------+-----------------------+--------------|
> | Page size | Vanilla | Preempt no-break-huge | Preempt full |
> |-----------+---------+-----------------------+--------------|
> | 4K | 10.68 | N/A [*] | 0.57 |
> | 2M | 10.58 | 5.49 | 5.02 |
> | 1G | 2046.65 | 933.185 | 649.445 |
> |-----------+---------+-----------------------+--------------|
> [*]: This case is N/A because 4K page does not contain huge page at all
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/xzpeter/small-stuffs/blob/master/tools/huge_vm/uffd-latency.bpf
>
> TODO List
> =========
>
> Avoid precopy write() blocks postcopy
> -------------------------------------
>
> I didn't prove this, but I always think the write() syscalls being blocked
> for precopy pages can affect postcopy services. If we can solve this
> problem then my wild guess is we can further reduce the average page
> latency.
>
> Two solutions at least in mind: (1) we could have made the write side of
> the migration channel NON_BLOCK too, or (2) multi-threads on send side,
> just like multifd, but we may use lock to protect which page to send too
> (e.g., the core idea is we should _never_ rely anything on the main thread,
> multifd has that dependency on queuing pages only on main thread).
>
> That can definitely be done and thought about later.
>
> Multi-channel for preemption threads
> ------------------------------------
>
> Currently the postcopy preempt feature use only one extra channel and one
> extra thread on dest (no new thread on src QEMU). It should be mostly good
> enough for major use cases, but when the postcopy queue is long enough
> (e.g. hundreds of vCPUs faulted on different pages) logically we could
> still observe more delays in average. Whether growing threads/channels can
> solve it is debatable, but sounds worthwhile a try. That's yet another
> thing we can think about after this patchset lands.
>
> Logically the design provides space for that - the receiving postcopy
> preempt thread can understand all ram-layer migration protocol, and for
> multi channel and multi threads we could simply grow that into multile
> threads handling the same protocol (with multiple PostcopyTmpPage). The
> source needs more thoughts on synchronizations, though, but it shouldn't
> affect the whole protocol layer, so should be easy to keep compatible.
>
> Please review, thanks.
>
> Peter Xu (19):
> migration: Postpone releasing MigrationState.hostname
> migration: Drop multifd tls_hostname cache
> migration: Add pss.postcopy_requested status
> migration: Move migrate_allow_multifd and helpers into migration.c
> migration: Export ram_load_postcopy()
> migration: Move channel setup out of postcopy_try_recover()
> migration: Allow migrate-recover to run multiple times
> migration: Add postcopy-preempt capability
> migration: Postcopy preemption preparation on channel creation
> migration: Postcopy preemption enablement
> migration: Postcopy recover with preempt enabled
> migration: Create the postcopy preempt channel asynchronously
> migration: Parameter x-postcopy-preempt-break-huge
> migration: Add helpers to detect TLS capability
> migration: Export tls-[creds|hostname|authz] params to cmdline too
> migration: Enable TLS for preempt channel
> tests: Add postcopy tls migration test
> tests: Add postcopy tls recovery migration test
> tests: Add postcopy preempt tests
>
> migration/channel.c | 11 +-
> migration/migration.c | 218 ++++++++++++++++++++------
> migration/migration.h | 52 ++++++-
> migration/multifd.c | 36 +----
> migration/multifd.h | 4 -
> migration/postcopy-ram.c | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> migration/postcopy-ram.h | 11 ++
> migration/qemu-file.c | 27 ++++
> migration/qemu-file.h | 1 +
> migration/ram.c | 288 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> migration/ram.h | 3 +
> migration/savevm.c | 49 ++++--
> migration/socket.c | 22 ++-
> migration/socket.h | 1 +
> migration/trace-events | 15 +-
> qapi/migration.json | 8 +-
> tests/qtest/migration-test.c | 113 ++++++++++++--
> 17 files changed, 918 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.32.0
>
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
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