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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/54] Postcopy implementation
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Bharata B Rao |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/54] Postcopy implementation |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:58:17 +0530 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:53:04AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Bharata B Rao (address@hidden) wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 05:51:39PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
> > wrote:
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > This is the 8th cut of my version of postcopy.
> > >
> > > The userfaultfd linux kernel code is now in the upstream kernel
> > > tree, and so 4.3-rc3 can be used without modification.
> > >
> > > This qemu series can be found at:
> > > https://github.com/orbitfp7/qemu.git
> > > on the wp3-postcopy-v8 tag
> > >
> > >
> > > Testing status:
> > > * Tested heavily on x86
> > > * Smoke tested on aarch64 (so it does work on different page sizes)
> > > * Power is unhappy for me (but gets further than the htab problem
> > > v7 used to have) (I get a kvm run failed)
> >
> > Seems to be completing successfully on Power. But it takes 2min for the
> > migration status to transition from setup to active.
> >
> > Host: 4.3.0-rc3+
> > Guest: 4.3.0-rc3+
> > QEMU: wp3-postcopy-v8 of your tree.
> >
> > # ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm --nographic -machine
> > pseries -m 8G,slots=32,maxmem=32G -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=rootdisk
> > -drive
> > file=/home/bharata/F20-snap1,if=none,cache=none,id=rootdisk,format=qcow2
> > -vga none -net nic,model=virtio -net user -redir tcp:2000::22 -smp
> > 16,maxcpus=32 -serial pty
> >
> > (qemu) migrate_set_capability x-postcopy-ram on
> > (qemu) migrate -d tcp:localhost:4444
> > (qemu) info migrate
> > capabilities: xbzrle: off rdma-pin-all: off auto-converge: off zero-blocks:
> > off compress: off events: off x-postcopy-ram: on
> > Migration status: setup
> > total time: 0 milliseconds
> >
> > same status for around 2min...
>
> That's interesting; I saw that behaviour on my aarch64 box, but not on
> my power box or on x86. Can you try using tcp:127.0.0.1:4444 to force
> ipv4 (that fixed it for me on aarch64). On the aarch box I found that
> it still happened with head of tree qemu and so decided it wasn't my
> postcopy world; I'm assuming what's happening is that it's trying
> to connect to the IPv6 address, timing out and then trying IPv4.
Yes, s/localhost/127.0.0.1 helps.
>
> Great; is the guest happy?
Yes, survived a reboot, postcopy migration back to the original host
and then a reboot.
Regards,
Bharata.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 48/54] Postcopy; Handle userfault requests, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 48/54] Postcopy; Handle userfault requests, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 50/54] postcopy: Wire up loadvm_postcopy_handle_ commands, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 49/54] Start up a postcopy/listener thread ready for incoming page data, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 51/54] Postcopy: Mark nohugepage before discard, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 52/54] End of migration for postcopy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 53/54] Disable mlock around incoming postcopy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 54/54] Inhibit ballooning during postcopy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git), 2015/10/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/54] Postcopy implementation, Bharata B Rao, 2015/10/08
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/54] Postcopy implementation, Bharata B Rao, 2015/10/08