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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/12] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram page
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/12] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages |
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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:29:16 +0100 |
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Il 21/03/2013 10:09, Orit Wasserman ha scritto:
> In migration all data is copied to a static buffer in QEMUFile,
> this hurts our network bandwidth and CPU usage especially with large guests.
> We switched to iovec for storing different buffers to send (even a byte field
> is
> considered as a buffer) and use writev to send the iovec.
> writev was chosen (as apposed to sendmsg) because it supprts non socket fds.
>
> Guest memory pages are not copied by calling a new function
> qemu_put_buffer_no_copy.
> The page header data and device state data are still copied into the static
> buffer. This data consists of a lot of bytes and integer fields and the static
> buffer is used to store it during batching.
> Another improvement is changing qemu_putbe64/32/16 to create a single
> buffer instead of several byte sized buffer.
Very nice! I just disagree on making writev_buffer mandatory; instead,
a QemuFileOps could choose between implementing either put_buffer or
writev_buffer. This removes the duplicate code you have between
iov_writev and block_writev_buffer.
Thanks,
Paolo
> Orit Wasserman (12):
> Add iov_writev to use writev to send iovec (also for files)
> Add QemuFileWritevBuffer QemuFileOps
> Add socket_writev_buffer function
> Add stdio_writev_buffer function
> Add block_writev_buffer function
> Update bytes_xfer in qemu_put_byte
> Store the data to send also in iovec
> Use writev ops instead of put_buffer ops
> More optimized qemu_put_be64/32/16
> Add qemu_put_buffer_no_copy
> Use qemu_put_buffer_no_copy for guest memory pages
> Bye Bye put_buffer
>
> arch_init.c | 2 +-
> include/migration/qemu-file.h | 20 ++++---
> include/qemu/iov.h | 12 ++++
> savevm.c | 130
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> util/iov.c | 36 ++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
>
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 07/12] Store the data to send also in iovec, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [RFC 08/12] Use writev ops instead of put_buffer ops, Orit Wasserman, 2013/03/21
[Qemu-devel] [RFC 09/12] More optimized qemu_put_be64/32/16, Orit Wasserman, 2013/03/21
[Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/12] Add qemu_put_buffer_no_copy, Orit Wasserman, 2013/03/21
[Qemu-devel] [RFC 11/12] Use qemu_put_buffer_no_copy for guest memory pages, Orit Wasserman, 2013/03/21
[Qemu-devel] [RFC 12/12] Bye Bye put_buffer, Orit Wasserman, 2013/03/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/12] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages,
Paolo Bonzini <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/12] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/03/21