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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH COLO-Frame v6 00/31] COarse-grain LOck-stepping(


From: zhanghailiang
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH COLO-Frame v6 00/31] COarse-grain LOck-stepping(COLO) Virtual Machines for Non-stop Service
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:36:11 +0800
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On 2015/7/1 0:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

Hi,
   An observation I've got, and this is from the previous version; if there
is a problem with the network that carries the comparison traffic, the failure 
is
difficult to dtect - you start COLO both VMs seem to be running and COLO
starts up fine, but it's only later that you realise that you are getting
no comparison failures.


Yes, that is a problem, it is usually caused by passing wrong net parameter when
startup qemu or the network topology in host is incorrect for COLO, and it is 
really
difficult to detect these cases, we will look into them ...

Thanks,
zhanghailiang

   It would be good to find a way to detect this failure reliably.

* zhanghailiang (address@hidden) wrote:
This is the 6th version of COLO, here is only COLO frame part, include: VM 
checkpoint,
failover, proxy API, block replication API, not include block replication.
The block part is sent as a separate series.

As usuall, we provide two branch which one is 'colo-v1.3-basic',
and the other is 'colo-v1.3-developing', The 'basic' branch is exactly the same
with this patch series, which has basic features of COLO.
We will keep this series simple as possible, just for easy review.

You can get the newest integrated qemu colo patches from github (Include Block 
part):
https://github.com/coloft/qemu/commits/colo-v1.3-basic
https://github.com/coloft/qemu/commits/colo-v1.3-developing (more features)
Please NOTE the difference between these two branch.
Colo-v1.3-developing has some optimization in the process of checkpoint, 
including:
    1) separate ram and device save/load process to reduce size of extra memory
       used during checkpoint
    2) live migrate part of dirty pages to slave during sleep time.
Besides, we add some statistic info in 'developing' branch, which you can get 
these stat
info by using command 'info migrate'.

About how to test COLO, Please reference to the follow link.
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/COLO.

For the kernel part (colo proxy) of COLO, we have sent a RFC patch to kernel 
community:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/18/32

COLO is a totally new feature which is still in early stage,
your comments and feedback are warmly welcomed.

Cc: address@hidden

TODO:
1. COLO function switch on/off
2. Optimize proxy part, include proxy script.
   1) Remove the limitation of forward network link.
   2) Reuse the nfqueue_entry and NF_STOLEN to enqueue skb
3. The capability of continuous FT

v6:
- Add a new qmp event 'COLO_EXIT' for COLO error, which is useful
   for users to get involved in failover verdict.
- Support '-net nic' configure
- Fix segmentfault bug that triggered by running 'colo_lost_heartbeat' directly
   when VM is not in COLO state.
- Fix qemu abort bug that triggered by Startup another migration when in COLO 
state.
- Optimize some codes, especailly colo net part.

zhanghailiang (31):
   configure: Add parameter for configure to enable/disable COLO support
   migration: Introduce capability 'colo' to migration
   COLO: migrate colo related info to slave
   migration: Integrate COLO checkpoint process into migration
   migration: Integrate COLO checkpoint process into loadvm
   COLO: Implement colo checkpoint protocol
   COLO: Add a new RunState RUN_STATE_COLO
   QEMUSizedBuffer: Introduce two help functions for qsb
   COLO: Save VM state to slave when do checkpoint
   COLO RAM: Load PVM's dirty page into SVM's RAM cache temporarily
   COLO VMstate: Load VM state into qsb before restore it
   arch_init: Start to trace dirty pages of SVM
   COLO RAM: Flush cached RAM into SVM's memory
   COLO failover: Introduce a new command to trigger a failover
   COLO failover: Implement COLO primary/secondary vm failover work
   qmp event: Add event notification for COLO error
   COLO failover: Don't do failover during loading VM's state
   COLO: Add new command parameter 'colo_nicname' 'colo_script' for net
   COLO NIC: Init/remove colo nic devices when add/cleanup tap devices
   tap: Make launch_script() public
   COLO NIC: Implement colo nic device interface configure()
   COLO NIC : Implement colo nic init/destroy function
   COLO NIC: Some init work related with proxy module
   COLO: Handle nfnetlink message from proxy module
   COLO: Do checkpoint according to the result of packets comparation
   COLO: Improve checkpoint efficiency by do additional periodic
     checkpoint
   COLO: Add colo-set-checkpoint-period command
   COLO NIC: Implement NIC checkpoint and failover
   COLO: Disable qdev hotplug when VM is in COLO mode
   COLO: Implement shutdown checkpoint
   COLO: Add block replication into colo process

  configure                              |  36 +-
  docs/qmp/qmp-events.txt                |  16 +
  hmp-commands.hx                        |  30 ++
  hmp.c                                  |  15 +
  hmp.h                                  |   2 +
  include/exec/cpu-all.h                 |   1 +
  include/migration/migration-colo.h     |  50 ++
  include/migration/migration-failover.h |  22 +
  include/migration/migration.h          |   3 +
  include/migration/qemu-file.h          |   3 +-
  include/net/colo-nic.h                 |  34 ++
  include/net/net.h                      |   2 +
  include/net/tap.h                      |  19 +
  include/sysemu/sysemu.h                |   3 +
  migration/Makefile.objs                |   2 +
  migration/colo-comm.c                  |  68 +++
  migration/colo-failover.c              |  53 ++
  migration/colo.c                       | 854 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  migration/migration.c                  |  68 ++-
  migration/qemu-file-buf.c              |  58 +++
  migration/ram.c                        | 249 +++++++++-
  migration/savevm.c                     |   2 +-
  net/Makefile.objs                      |   1 +
  net/colo-nic.c                         | 402 ++++++++++++++++
  net/net.c                              |   2 +
  net/tap.c                              |  87 ++--
  qapi-schema.json                       |  58 ++-
  qapi/event.json                        |  15 +
  qemu-options.hx                        |   7 +
  qmp-commands.hx                        |  41 ++
  scripts/colo-proxy-script.sh           |  90 ++++
  stubs/Makefile.objs                    |   1 +
  stubs/migration-colo.c                 |  58 +++
  trace-events                           |  11 +
  vl.c                                   |  39 +-
  35 files changed, 2333 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 include/migration/migration-colo.h
  create mode 100644 include/migration/migration-failover.h
  create mode 100644 include/net/colo-nic.h
  create mode 100644 migration/colo-comm.c
  create mode 100644 migration/colo-failover.c
  create mode 100644 migration/colo.c
  create mode 100644 net/colo-nic.c
  create mode 100755 scripts/colo-proxy-script.sh
  create mode 100644 stubs/migration-colo.c

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1.7.12.4


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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK

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