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[v9,10/14] rdma: introduce capability x-rdma-pin-all

Message ID 1371242153-11262-11-git-send-email-mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com June 14, 2013, 8:35 p.m. UTC 
From: "Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@us.ibm.com>

This capability allows you to disable dynamic chunk registration
for better throughput on high-performance links.

For example, using an 8GB RAM virtual machine with all 8GB of memory in
active use and the VM itself is completely idle using a 40 gbps infiniband link:

1. x-rdma-pin-all disabled total time: approximately 7.5 seconds @ 9.5 Gbps
2. x-rdma-pin-all enabled total time: approximately 4 seconds @ 26 Gbps

These numbers would of course scale up to whatever size virtual machine
you have to migrate using RDMA.

Enabling this feature does *not* have any measurable affect on
migration *downtime*. This is because, without this feature, all of the
memory will have already been registered already in advance during
the bulk round and does not need to be re-registered during the successive
iteration rounds.

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
---
 include/migration/migration.h |    2 ++
 migration.c                   |    9 +++++++++
 qapi-schema.json              |    7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Eric Blake June 15, 2013, 9:05 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 06/14/2013 09:35 PM, mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> From: "Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
> 
> This capability allows you to disable dynamic chunk registration
> for better throughput on high-performance links.
> 

> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -608,10 +608,15 @@
>  #          This feature allows us to minimize migration traffic for certain work
>  #          loads, by sending compressed difference of the pages
>  #
> +# @x-rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
> +#          mlock()'d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for usage.
> +#          Disabled by default. Experimental: may (or may not) be renamed after
> +#          further testing is complete. (since 1.5)

1.5 is already out.  That means this should probably be (since 1.6) now.
mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com June 16, 2013, 4:04 a.m. UTC | #2 
On 06/15/2013 05:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/14/2013 09:35 PM, mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>> From: "Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
>>
>> This capability allows you to disable dynamic chunk registration
>> for better throughput on high-performance links.
>>
>> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
>> @@ -608,10 +608,15 @@
>>   #          This feature allows us to minimize migration traffic for certain work
>>   #          loads, by sending compressed difference of the pages
>>   #
>> +# @x-rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
>> +#          mlock()'d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for usage.
>> +#          Disabled by default. Experimental: may (or may not) be renamed after
>> +#          further testing is complete. (since 1.5)
> 1.5 is already out.  That means this should probably be (since 1.6) now.
>

Good catch again.

- Michael
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diff --git a/include/migration/migration.h b/include/migration/migration.h
index d60c64c..2e6001d 100644
--- a/include/migration/migration.h
+++ b/include/migration/migration.h
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@  void migrate_add_blocker(Error *reason);
  */
 void migrate_del_blocker(Error *reason);
 
+bool migrate_rdma_pin_all(void);
+
 int xbzrle_encode_buffer(uint8_t *old_buf, uint8_t *new_buf, int slen,
                          uint8_t *dst, int dlen);
 int xbzrle_decode_buffer(uint8_t *src, int slen, uint8_t *dst, int dlen);
diff --git a/migration.c b/migration.c
index 441a3b2..a704d48 100644
--- a/migration.c
+++ b/migration.c
@@ -476,6 +476,15 @@  void qmp_migrate_set_downtime(double value, Error **errp)
     max_downtime = (uint64_t)value;
 }
 
+bool migrate_rdma_pin_all(void)
+{
+    MigrationState *s;
+
+    s = migrate_get_current();
+
+    return s->enabled_capabilities[MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_X_RDMA_PIN_ALL];
+}
+
 int migrate_use_xbzrle(void)
 {
     MigrationState *s;
diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
index b239adb..4e9cd6d 100644
--- a/qapi-schema.json
+++ b/qapi-schema.json
@@ -608,10 +608,15 @@ 
 #          This feature allows us to minimize migration traffic for certain work
 #          loads, by sending compressed difference of the pages
 #
+# @x-rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
+#          mlock()'d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for usage.
+#          Disabled by default. Experimental: may (or may not) be renamed after
+#          further testing is complete. (since 1.5)
+#
 # Since: 1.2
 ##
 { 'enum': 'MigrationCapability',
-  'data': ['xbzrle'] }
+  'data': ['xbzrle', 'x-rdma-pin-all'] }
 
 ##
 # @MigrationCapabilityStatus