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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers a
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:39:15 +0100 |
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Il 12/12/2012 18:14, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:51:51PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 12/12/2012 17:37, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>>>> You wrote "the only way to know head 1 is outstanding is because backend
>>>> has stored this info somewhere". But the backend _is_ tracking it (by
>>>> serializing and then restoring the VirtQueueElement) and no leak happens
>>>> because virtqueue_fill/flush will put the head on the used ring sooner
>>>> or later.
>>>
>>> If you did this before save vm inuse would be 0.
>>
>> No, I won't. I want a simple API that the device can call to keep inuse
>> up-to-date. Perhaps a bit ugly compared to just saving inuse, but it
>> works. Or are there other bits that need resyncing besides inuse? Bits
>> that cannot be recovered from the existing migration data?
>
> Saving inuse counter is useless. We need to know which requests
> are outstanding if we want to retry them on remote.
And that's what virtio-blk and virtio-scsi have been doing for years.
They store the VirtQueueElement including the index and the sglists.
Can you explain *why* the index is not enough to reconstruct the state
on the destination? There may be bugs and you may need help from
virtio_blk_load, but that's okay.
>>> You said that at the point where we save state,
>>> some entries are outstanding. It is too late to
>>> put head at that point.
>>
>> I don't want to put head on the source. I want to put it on the
>> destination, when the request is completed. Same as it is done now,
>> with bugfixes of course. Are there any problems doing so, except that
>> inuse will not be up-to-date (easily fixed)?
>
> You have an outstanding request that is behind last avail index.
> You do not want to complete it. You migrate. There is no
> way for remote to understand that the request is outstanding.
The savevm callbacks know which request is outstanding and pass the
information to the destination. See virtio_blk_save and virtio_blk_load.
What is not clear, and you haven't explained, is how you get to a bug in
the handling of the avail ring. What's wrong with this explanation:
A 1
A 2
U 2
A 2
U 2
A 2
U 2
A 2 <---
U 2
where before the point marked with the arrow, the avail ring is
1 2 2 2
vring_avail_idx(vq) == 3
last_avail_idx == 3
and after the point marked with the arrow, the avail ring is
2 2 2 2
vring_avail_idx(vq) == 4
last_avail_idx == 3
?!?
>>>> It's not common, but you cannot block migration because you have an I/O
>>>> error. Solving the error may involve migrating the guests away from
>>>> that host.
>>>
>>> No, you should complete with error.
>>
>> Knowing that the request will fail, the admin will not be able to do
>> migration, even if that will solve the error transparently.
>
> You are saying there's no way to complete all requests?
With an error, yes. Transparently after fixing the error (which may
involve migration), no.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Anthony Liguori, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Rusty Russell, 2012/12/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Anthony Liguori, 2012/12/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed, Kevin Wolf, 2012/12/13