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[v8,11/11] migration: postcopy_blocktime documentation

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Alexey Perevalov June 7, 2017, 9:46 a.m. UTC
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
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 docs/migration.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

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Juan Quintela June 7, 2017, 12:52 p.m. UTC | #1
Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com> wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
> ---
>  docs/migration.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
> index 1b940a8..4b625ca 100644
> --- a/docs/migration.txt
> +++ b/docs/migration.txt
> @@ -402,6 +402,16 @@ will now cause the transition from precopy to postcopy.
>  It can be issued immediately after migration is started or any
>  time later on.  Issuing it after the end of a migration is harmless.
>  
> +Blocktime is a postcopy live migration metric, intended to show
> +how long the vCPU was in state of interruptable sleep due to pagefault.
> +This value is calculated on destination side.
> +To enable postcopy blocktime calculation, enter following command on destination
> +monitor:
> +
> +migrate_set_capability postcopy-blocktime on
> +
> +Postcopy blocktime can be retrieved by query-migrate qmp command.
> +
>  Note: During the postcopy phase, the bandwidth limits set using
>  migrate_set_speed is ignored (to avoid delaying requested pages that
>  the destination is waiting for).

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

If you have to respin, I think that put the units would be a good idea.
Even you can put the units in the patch where you define the value.
Alexey Perevalov June 7, 2017, 1:08 p.m. UTC | #2
On 06/07/2017 03:52 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com> wrote:
>> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
>> ---
>>   docs/migration.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
>> index 1b940a8..4b625ca 100644
>> --- a/docs/migration.txt
>> +++ b/docs/migration.txt
>> @@ -402,6 +402,16 @@ will now cause the transition from precopy to postcopy.
>>   It can be issued immediately after migration is started or any
>>   time later on.  Issuing it after the end of a migration is harmless.
>>   
>> +Blocktime is a postcopy live migration metric, intended to show
>> +how long the vCPU was in state of interruptable sleep due to pagefault.
>> +This value is calculated on destination side.
>> +To enable postcopy blocktime calculation, enter following command on destination
>> +monitor:
>> +
>> +migrate_set_capability postcopy-blocktime on
>> +
>> +Postcopy blocktime can be retrieved by query-migrate qmp command.
>> +
>>   Note: During the postcopy phase, the bandwidth limits set using
>>   migrate_set_speed is ignored (to avoid delaying requested pages that
>>   the destination is waiting for).
> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
>
> If you have to respin, I think that put the units would be a good idea.
> Even you can put the units in the patch where you define the value.
do you mean to extend tests/postcopy-test.c?
>
>
>
>
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diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
index 1b940a8..4b625ca 100644
--- a/docs/migration.txt
+++ b/docs/migration.txt
@@ -402,6 +402,16 @@  will now cause the transition from precopy to postcopy.
 It can be issued immediately after migration is started or any
 time later on.  Issuing it after the end of a migration is harmless.
 
+Blocktime is a postcopy live migration metric, intended to show
+how long the vCPU was in state of interruptable sleep due to pagefault.
+This value is calculated on destination side.
+To enable postcopy blocktime calculation, enter following command on destination
+monitor:
+
+migrate_set_capability postcopy-blocktime on
+
+Postcopy blocktime can be retrieved by query-migrate qmp command.
+
 Note: During the postcopy phase, the bandwidth limits set using
 migrate_set_speed is ignored (to avoid delaying requested pages that
 the destination is waiting for).