From: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> Commit 637280aeb2 ("migration/multifd: Avoid the final FLUSH in complete()") stopped sending the RAM_SAVE_FLAG_MULTIFD_FLUSH flag at ram_save_complete(), because the sync on the destination side is not needed due to the last iteration of find_dirty_block() having already done it.
However, that commit overlooked that multifd_ram_flush_and_sync() on the source side is also not needed at ram_save_complete(), for the same reason. Moreover, removing the RAM_SAVE_FLAG_MULTIFD_FLUSH but keeping the multifd_ram_flush_and_sync() means that currently the recv threads will hang when receiving the MULTIFD_FLAG_SYNC message, waiting for the destination sync which only happens when RAM_SAVE_FLAG_MULTIFD_FLUSH is received. Luckily, multifd is still all working fine because recv side cleanup code (mostly multifd_recv_sync_main()) is smart enough to make sure even if recv threads are stuck at SYNC it'll get kicked out. And since this is the completion phase of migration, nothing else will be sent after the SYNCs. This needs to be fixed because in the future VFIO will have data to push after ram_save_complete() and we don't want the recv thread to be stuck in the MULTIFD_FLAG_SYNC message. Remove the unnecessary (and buggy) invocation of multifd_ram_flush_and_sync(). For very old binaries (multifd_flush_after_each_section==true), the flush_and_sync is still needed because each EOS received on destination will enforce all-channel sync once. Stable branches do not need this patch, as no real bug I can think of that will go wrong there.. so not attaching Fixes to be clear on the backport not needed. Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241206224755.1108686-2-pet...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de> --- migration/ram.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c index a60666d3f6..f0ddd5eabe 100644 --- a/migration/ram.c +++ b/migration/ram.c @@ -3283,9 +3283,16 @@ static int ram_save_complete(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque) } } - ret = multifd_ram_flush_and_sync(); - if (ret < 0) { - return ret; + if (migrate_multifd() && + migrate_multifd_flush_after_each_section()) { + /* + * Only the old dest QEMU will need this sync, because each EOS + * will require one SYNC message on each channel. + */ + ret = multifd_ram_flush_and_sync(); + if (ret < 0) { + return ret; + } } if (migrate_mapped_ram()) { -- 2.35.3