[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2014-04-15 Thread Bryan Quigley
QEMU 1.7 was released, Quantal has 10ish days left of support, and Raring is EOL ** Changed in: qemu Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: Triaged = Invalid ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Raring) Status: Triaged = Invalid --

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-11-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Fix will be part of QEMU 1.7.0 (commit fc1c4a5, migration: drop MADVISE_DONT_NEED for incoming zero pages, 2013-10-24). ** Changed in: qemu Status: New = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-11-08 Thread Chris J Arges
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Quantal) Assignee: Chris J Arges (arges) = (unassigned) ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Raring) Assignee: Chris J Arges (arges) = (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-24 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.12 --- qemu-kvm (1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.12) precise-proposed; urgency=low * migration-do-not-overwrite-zero-pages.patch, call-madv-hugepage-for-guest-ram-allocations.patch: Fix performance degradation after

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-11 Thread Chris J Arges
I have verified this on my local machine using virt-manager's save memory, savevm/loadvm via the qemu monitor , and migrate via qemu monitor. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-10 Thread Peter Lieven
On 07.10.2013 11:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 07/10/2013 11:49, Peter Lieven ha scritto: It's in general not easy to do this if you take non-x86 targets into account. What about the dirty way to zero out all non zero pages at the beginning of ram_load? I'm not sure I follow? sth like this for

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-10 Thread Brian Murray
Hello Mark, or anyone else affected, Accepted qemu-kvm into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/1.0+noroms- 0ubuntu14.12 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Peter Lieven
On 06.10.2013 15:57, Zhang Haoyu wrote: From my testing this has been fixed in the saucy version (1.5.0) of qemu. It is fixed by this patch: f1c72795af573b24a7da5eb52375c9aba8a37972 However later in the history this commit was reverted, and again broke this. The other commit that fixes this

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 07/10/2013 08:38, Peter Lieven ha scritto: On 06.10.2013 15:57, Zhang Haoyu wrote: From my testing this has been fixed in the saucy version (1.5.0) of qemu. It is fixed by this patch: f1c72795af573b24a7da5eb52375c9aba8a37972 However later in the history this commit was reverted, and again

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Peter Lieven
On 07.10.2013 11:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 07/10/2013 08:38, Peter Lieven ha scritto: On 06.10.2013 15:57, Zhang Haoyu wrote: From my testing this has been fixed in the saucy version (1.5.0) of qemu. It is fixed by this patch: f1c72795af573b24a7da5eb52375c9aba8a37972 However later in the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 07/10/2013 11:49, Peter Lieven ha scritto: It's in general not easy to do this if you take non-x86 targets into account. What about the dirty way to zero out all non zero pages at the beginning of ram_load? I'm not sure I follow? Paolo

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Chris J Arges
I found that two patches need to be backported to solve this issue: ad0b5321f1f797274603ebbe20108b0750baee94 211ea74022f51164a7729030b28eec90b6c99a08 I've added the necessary bits into precise and tried a few tests: 1) Measure performance before and after savevm/loadvm. 2) Measure performance

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Chris J Arges
** Description changed: + SRU Justification + [Impact] + * Users of QEMU that save their memory states using savevm/loadvm or migrate experience worse performance after the migration/loadvm. To workaround these issues VMs must be completely rebooted. Optimally we should be able to restore a

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Chris J Arges
** Description changed: SRU Justification - [Impact] - * Users of QEMU that save their memory states using savevm/loadvm or migrate experience worse performance after the migration/loadvm. To workaround these issues VMs must be completely rebooted. Optimally we should be able to restore a

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-07 Thread Chris J Arges
** Description changed: SRU Justification [Impact]  * Users of QEMU that save their memory states using savevm/loadvm or migrate experience worse performance after the migration/loadvm. To workaround these issues VMs must be completely rebooted. Optimally we should be able to restore a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-10-06 Thread Zhang Haoyu
From my testing this has been fixed in the saucy version (1.5.0) of qemu. It is fixed by this patch: f1c72795af573b24a7da5eb52375c9aba8a37972 However later in the history this commit was reverted, and again broke this. The other commit that fixes this is: 211ea74022f51164a7729030b28eec90b6c99a08

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Chris J Arges
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100843 Title: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues Status in QEMU: New

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Chris J Arges
From my testing this has been fixed in the saucy version (1.5.0) of qemu. It is fixed by this patch: f1c72795af573b24a7da5eb52375c9aba8a37972 However later in the history this commit was reverted, and again broke this. The other commit that fixes this is:

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-09-24 Thread Chris J Arges
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Chris J Arges (arges) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100843 Title: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues Status

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-09-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This is being looked at in an upstream thread at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-07/msg01850.html Cheers, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100843 Title: Live

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-09-02 Thread Stephen Gran
We are reliably seeing this post live-migration on an openstack platform. Setup: hypervisor == Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS libvirt === 1.0.2-0ubuntu11.13.04.2~cloud0 qemu-kvm === 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.10 storage: NFS exports Guest VM OS: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and CentOS 6.4 We have ept enabled. Sample

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-07-08 Thread Fletcher Kubota
My HyperDex cluster nodes performance dropped significantly after migrating them (virsh migrate --live ...).they are hosted on precise KVM (12.04.2 Precise Pangolin). first Google search result landed me on this page. it seems i'm not the only one who's encountering this problem. I hope this

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-24 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Can you please check if you have EPT enabled? This could be https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58771 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #58771 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58771 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu-

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-24 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Oops, I missed Chris's comment #28. Thanks. From comment #23, the 1.4 machine type seems to be fast, while 1.3 is slow. This doesn't make much sense, given the differences between the two machine types: enable_compat_apic_id_mode(); .driver = usb-tablet,\ .property

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-24 Thread C Cormier
@Paolo yes, when i was doing that testing i was able to consistently reproduce those results in #23, but it was a red herring, as of now i cannot reproduce the results in #23 consistently (i suspect it may have had something to do with the order i was executing tests but didn’t chase it any

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-09 Thread Jonathan Jefferson
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100843 Title: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues Status in QEMU: New

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-08 Thread C Cormier
Update: From our testing this bug affects KVM Hypervisors on Intel processors that have the EPT feature enabled with Kernels 3.0 and greater. A list of Intel EPT supported CPUs here (http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology). When using a KVM Hypervisor Host with Linux kernel 3.0

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-08 Thread Serge Hallyn
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100843 Title: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues Status in QEMU:

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Jefferson
I used this handy tool to run system call preliminary benchmarks: http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/ In a nutshell, what I found is a confirmation that live migration does indeed degrade performance on precise KVM. I hope the below results help narrow down this critical problem to

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-04-30 Thread Jonathan Jefferson
I have a few VMs (precise) that process high-volume transaction jobs each night. After I've done a live-migrate operation to replace faulty power supply on a bare-metal server, we encountered sluggish performance on the migrated VMs, significant higher CPU is recorded in particular, where the

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-04-16 Thread Serge Hallyn
** Also affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100843 Title: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues Status in QEMU: New

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-04-16 Thread Paolo Bonzini
The results of comment 23 suggest that the issue is not 100% reproducible. Can you please run the benchmark 3-4 times (presave/postrestore) and showall 4 results? One benchmark only, e.g. simple read will do. Also please try putting a big file on disk (something like dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

2013-04-16 Thread C Cormier
Can you clarify what's not 100% reproducible? The only time that it is not reproducible on my system is between different qemu machine types as I listed. If tests are performed on same machine-type they are reproducible 100% of the time on the same host and vm guest as shown in comment #23. I