Re: [Qemu-devel] [Migration Bug? ] Occasionally, the content of VM's memory is inconsistent between Source and Destination of migration

[Juan Quintela]

Wen Congyang <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/27/2015 05:57 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>> You must use -drive cache=none if you want to use live migration.  It
>>>> should not directly affect memory during migration though.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, what will happen? If the user doesn't use cache=none, and
>>> tries to use live migration, qemu doesn't output any message or trigger
>>> an event to notify the user.
>> 
>> There is a risk that the destination host sees an inconsistent view of
>> the image file because the source was still accessing it towards the
>> end of migration.
>
> Does the flag BDRV_O_NOFLUSH cause it?

The biggest isue is reads.

Target: reads 1st block of disk
        it enters page cache of target
Source: reads and writes lots of blocks

Migration happens.

Target: rereads 1st block of disk, and gets stalled contents.

No amount of fdatasync(), syncs() whatever on source will fix this problem.


Later, Juan.