Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-04-27 Thread Joshua Otto
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 04:37:16PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:03:29AM -0400, Joshua Otto wrote: > > I guess the way I had imagined an administrator using them would be in a > > non-production/test environment - if they could run workloads > > representative of their producti

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-04-12 Thread Wei Liu
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:03:29AM -0400, Joshua Otto wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:08:02PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > On 27/03/17 10:06, Joshua Otto wrote: > > > In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration > > > count refers to the number of page-copying iterat

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-03-29 Thread Joshua Otto
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:08:02PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 27/03/17 10:06, Joshua Otto wrote: > > In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration > > count refers to the number of page-copying iterations performed prior to > > the suspension of the guest and transmiss

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-03-29 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 27/03/17 10:06, Joshua Otto wrote: > In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration > count refers to the number of page-copying iterations performed prior to > the suspension of the guest and transmission of the final set of dirty > pages. Similarly, the precopy dirty th

[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-03-27 Thread Joshua Otto
In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration count refers to the number of page-copying iterations performed prior to the suspension of the guest and transmission of the final set of dirty pages. Similarly, the precopy dirty threshold refers to the dirty page count below w