On 06/24/2013 12:47 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote:
> If a user chooses to turn on the auto-converge migration capability
> these changes detect the lack of convergence and throttle down the
> guest. i.e. force the VCPUs out of the guest for some duration
> and let the migration thread catchup and help converge.
>
> Verified the convergence using the following :
> - Java Warehouse workload running on a 20VCPU/256G guest(~80% busy)
> - OLTP like workload running on a 80VCPU/512G guest (~80% busy)
>
> Sample results with Java warehouse workload : (migrate speed set to 20Gb and
> migrate downtime set to 4seconds).
>
> (qemu) info migrate
> capabilities: xbzrle: off auto-converge: off <----
> Migration status: active
> total time: 1487503 milliseconds
> expected downtime: 519 milliseconds
> transferred ram: 383749347 kbytes
> remaining ram: 2753372 kbytes
> total ram: 268444224 kbytes
> duplicate: 65461532 pages
> skipped: 64901568 pages
> normal: 95750218 pages
> normal bytes: 383000872 kbytes
> dirty pages rate: 67551 pages
>
> ---
>
> (qemu) info migrate
> capabilities: xbzrle: off auto-converge: on <----
> Migration status: completed
> total time: 241161 milliseconds
> downtime: 6373 milliseconds
> transferred ram: 28235307 kbytes
> remaining ram: 0 kbytes
> total ram: 268444224 kbytes
> duplicate: 64946416 pages
> skipped: 64903523 pages
> normal: 7044971 pages
> normal bytes: 28179884 kbytes
>
> Signed-off-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vi...@hp.com>
> ---
> arch_init.c | 79
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
> index a8b91ee..e7ca3b1 100644
> --- a/arch_init.c
> +++ b/arch_init.c
> @@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ int graphic_depth = 15;
> #endif
>
> const uint32_t arch_type = QEMU_ARCH;
> +static bool mig_throttle_on;
> +static int dirty_rate_high_cnt;
> +static void check_guest_throttling(void);
>
> /***********************************************************/
> /* ram save/restore */
> @@ -378,8 +381,14 @@ static void migration_bitmap_sync(void)
> uint64_t num_dirty_pages_init = migration_dirty_pages;
> MigrationState *s = migrate_get_current();
> static int64_t start_time;
> + static int64_t bytes_xfer_prev;
> static int64_t num_dirty_pages_period;
> int64_t end_time;
> + int64_t bytes_xfer_now;
> +
> + if (!bytes_xfer_prev) {
> + bytes_xfer_prev = ram_bytes_transferred();
> + }
>
> if (!start_time) {
> start_time = qemu_get_clock_ms(rt_clock);
> @@ -404,6 +413,23 @@ static void migration_bitmap_sync(void)
>
> /* more than 1 second = 1000 millisecons */
> if (end_time > start_time + 1000) {
> + if (migrate_auto_converge()) {
> + /* The following detection logic can be refined later. For now:
> + Check to see if the dirtied bytes is 50% more than the approx.
> + amount of bytes that just got transferred since the last time
> we
> + were in this routine. If that happens >N times (for now N==4)
> + we turn on the throttle down logic */
> + bytes_xfer_now = ram_bytes_transferred();
> + if (s->dirty_pages_rate &&
> + (num_dirty_pages_period * TARGET_PAGE_SIZE >
> + (bytes_xfer_now - bytes_xfer_prev)/2) &&
> + (dirty_rate_high_cnt++ > 4)) {
> + trace_migration_throttle();
> + mig_throttle_on = true;
> + dirty_rate_high_cnt = 0;
> + }
> + bytes_xfer_prev = bytes_xfer_now;
> + } else {
> + mig_throttle_on = false;
> + }
> s->dirty_pages_rate = num_dirty_pages_period * 1000
> / (end_time - start_time);
> s->dirty_bytes_rate = s->dirty_pages_rate * TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
> @@ -566,6 +592,8 @@ static int ram_save_setup(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
> migration_bitmap = bitmap_new(ram_pages);
> bitmap_set(migration_bitmap, 0, ram_pages);
> migration_dirty_pages = ram_pages;
> + mig_throttle_on = false;
> + dirty_rate_high_cnt = 0;
>
> if (migrate_use_xbzrle()) {
> XBZRLE.cache = cache_init(migrate_xbzrle_cache_size() /
> @@ -628,6 +656,7 @@ static int ram_save_iterate(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
> }
> total_sent += bytes_sent;
> acct_info.iterations++;
> + check_guest_throttling();
> /* we want to check in the 1st loop, just in case it was the 1st time
> and we had to sync the dirty bitmap.
> qemu_get_clock_ns() is a bit expensive, so we only check each some
> @@ -1097,3 +1126,53 @@ TargetInfo *qmp_query_target(Error **errp)
>
> return info;
> }
> +
> +/* Stub function that's gets run on the vcpu when its brought out of the
> + VM to run inside qemu via async_run_on_cpu()*/
> +static void mig_sleep_cpu(void *opq)
> +{
> + qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
> + g_usleep(30*1000);
> + qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
> +}
> +
> +/* To reduce the dirty rate explicitly disallow the VCPUs from spending
> + much time in the VM. The migration thread will try to catchup.
> + Workload will experience a performance drop.
> +*/
> +static void mig_throttle_cpu_down(CPUState *cpu, void *data)
> +{
> + async_run_on_cpu(cpu, mig_sleep_cpu, NULL);
> +}
> +
> +static void mig_throttle_guest_down(void)
> +{
> + qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
> + qemu_for_each_cpu(mig_throttle_cpu_down, NULL);
> + qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
> +}
> +
> +static void check_guest_throttling(void)
> +{
> + static int64_t t0;
> + int64_t t1;
> +
> + if (!mig_throttle_on) {
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + if (!t0) {
> + t0 = qemu_get_clock_ns(rt_clock);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + t1 = qemu_get_clock_ns(rt_clock);
> +
> + /* If it has been more than 40 ms since the last time the guest
> + * was throttled then do it again.
> + */
> + if (40 < (t1-t0)/1000000) {
> + mig_throttle_guest_down();
> + t0 = t1;
> + }
> +}
>
Reviewed-by: Orit Wasserman <owass...@redhat.com>
