This is the v3 patch series of postcopy migration.
The trees is available at
git://github.com/yamahata/qemu.git qemu-postcopy-oct-30-2012
git://github.com/yamahata/linux-umem.git linux-umem-oct-29-2012
Major changes v2 -> v3:
- implemented pre+post optimization
- auto detection of postcopy by incoming side
- using threads on destination instead of fork
- using blocking io instead of select + non-blocking io loop
- less memory overhead
- various improvement and code simplification
- kernel module name change umem -> uvmem to avoid name conflict.
Patches organization:
1-2: trivial fixes
3-5: prepartion for threading. cherry-picked from migration tree
6-18: refactoring existing code and preparation
19-25: implement postcopy live migration itself (essential part)
26-35: optimization/heuristic for postcopy
Usage
=====
You need load uvmem character device on the host before starting migration.
Postcopy can be used for tcg and kvm accelarator. The implementation depend
on only linux uvmem character device. But the driver dependent code is split
into a file.
I tested only host page size == guest page size case, but the implementation
allows host page size != guest page size case.
The following options are added with this patch series.
- incoming part
use -incoming as usual. Postcopy is automatically detected.
example:
qemu -incoming tcp:0:4444 -monitor stdio -machine accel=kvm
- outging part
options for migrate command
migrate [-p [-n] [-m]] URI
[<precopy count> [<prefault forward> [<prefault backword>]]]
Newly added options/arguments
-p: indicate postcopy migration
-n: disable background transferring pages: This is for benchmark/debugging
-m: move background transfer of postcopy mode
<precopy count>: The number of precopy RAM scan before postcopy.
default 0 (0 means no precopy)
<prefault forward>: The number of forward pages which is sent with on-demand
<prefault backward>: The number of backward pages which is sent with
on-demand
example:
migrate -p -n tcp:<dest ip address>:4444
migrate -p -n -m tcp:<dest ip address>:4444 42 42 0
TODO
====
- benchmark/evaluation
- improve/optimization
At the moment at least what I'm aware of is
- pre+post case
On desitnation side reading dirty bitmap would cause long latency.
create thread for that.
- consider on FUSE/CUSE possibility
basic postcopy work flow
========================
qemu on the destination
|
V
open(/dev/uvmem)
|
V
UVMEM_INIT
|
V
Here we have two file descriptors to
umem device and shmem file
|
| umem threads
| on the destination
|
V create pipe to communicate
crete threads--------------------------------,
| |
V mmap(shmem file)
mmap(uvmem device) for guest RAM close(shmem file)
| |
| |
V |
wait for ready from daemon <----pipe-----send ready message
| |
| Here the daemon takes over
send ok------------pipe---------------> the owner of the socket
| to the source
V |
entering post copy stage |
start guest execution |
| |
V V
access guest RAM read() to get faulted pages
| |
V V
page fault ------------------------------>page offset is returned
block |
V
pull page from the source
write the page contents
to the shmem.
|
V
unblock <-----------------------------write() to tell served pages
the fault handler returns the page |
page fault is resolved |
| V
| touch guest RAM pages
| |
| V
| release the cached page
| madvise(MADV_REMOVE)
|
|
| pages can be sent
| backgroundly
| |
| V
| mark page is cached
| Thus future page fault is
| avoided.
| |
| V
| touch guest RAM pages
| |
| V
| release the cached page
| madvise(MADV_REMOVE)
| |
V V
all the pages are pulled from the source
| |
V V
migration completes exit()
Isaku Yamahata (32):
migration.c: remove redundant line in migrate_init()
arch_init: DPRINTF format error and typo
osdep: add qemu_read_full() to read interrupt-safely
savevm: export qemu_peek_buffer, qemu_peek_byte, qemu_file_skip,
qemu_fflush
savevm/QEMUFile: consolidate QEMUFile functions a bit
savevm/QEMUFile: introduce qemu_fopen_fd
savevm/QEMUFile: add read/write QEMUFile on memory buffer
savevm, buffered_file: introduce method to drain buffer of buffered
file
arch_init: export RAM_SAVE_xxx flags for postcopy
arch_init/ram_save: introduce constant for ram save version = 4
arch_init: refactor ram_save_block() and export ram_save_block()
arch_init/ram_save_setup: factor out bitmap alloc/free
arch_init/ram_load: refactor ram_load
arch_init: factor out logic to find ram block with id string
migration: export migrate_fd_completed() and migrate_fd_cleanup()
uvmem.h: import Linux uvmem.h and teach update-linux-headers.sh
osdep: add QEMU_MADV_REMOVE and tirivial fix
postcopy: introduce helper functions for postcopy
savevm: add new section that is used by postcopy
postcopy: implement incoming part of postcopy live migration
postcopy outgoing: add -p option to migrate command
postcopy: implement outgoing part of postcopy live migration
postcopy/outgoing: add -n options to disable background transfer
postcopy/outgoing: implement forward/backword prefault
arch_init: factor out setting last_block, last_offset
postcopy/outgoing: add movebg mode(-m) to migration command
arch_init: factor out ram_load
arch_init: export ram_save_iterate()
postcopy: pre+post optimization incoming side
arch_init: export migration_bitmap_sync and helper method to get
bitmap
postcopy/outgoing: introduce precopy_count parameter
postcopy: pre+post optimization outgoing side
Paolo Bonzini (1):
split MRU ram list
Umesh Deshpande (2):
add a version number to ram_list
protect the ramlist with a separate mutex
Makefile.target | 2 +
arch_init.c | 391 +++++---
arch_init.h | 24 +
buffered_file.c | 59 +-
buffered_file.h | 1 +
cpu-all.h | 16 +-
exec.c | 62 +-
hmp-commands.hx | 21 +-
hmp.c | 12 +-
linux-headers/linux/uvmem.h | 41 +
migration-exec.c | 8 +-
migration-fd.c | 23 +-
migration-postcopy.c | 2019 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
migration-tcp.c | 16 +-
migration-unix.c | 36 +-
migration.c | 65 +-
migration.h | 42 +
osdep.c | 24 +
osdep.h | 13 +-
qapi-schema.json | 6 +-
qemu-common.h | 2 +
qemu-file.h | 12 +-
qmp-commands.hx | 4 +-
savevm.c | 223 ++++-
scripts/update-linux-headers.sh | 2 +-
sysemu.h | 2 +-
umem.c | 291 ++++++
umem.h | 88 ++
vl.c | 5 +-
29 files changed, 3265 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 linux-headers/linux/uvmem.h
create mode 100644 migration-postcopy.c
create mode 100644 umem.c
create mode 100644 umem.h
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