[Qemu-devel] [v5 09/12] migration: Make compression co-work with xbzrle

[Liang Li]

Now, multiple thread compression can co-work with xbzrle. when
xbzrle is on, multiple thread compression will only work at the
first round of RAM data sync.

Signed-off-by: Liang Li <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Dr.David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
---
 arch_init.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
index 17b7f15..12dfa34 100644
--- a/arch_init.c
+++ b/arch_init.c
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ static const QEMUFileOps empty_ops = { };
  * make bytes_transferred accurate.
  */
 static int one_byte_count;
+static bool compression_switch;
 static bool quit_comp_thread;
 static bool quit_decomp_thread;
 static DecompressParam *decomp_param;
@@ -454,6 +455,7 @@ void migrate_compress_threads_create(MigrationState *s)
         return;
     }
     quit_comp_thread = false;
+    compression_switch = true;
     thread_count = migrate_compress_threads();
     s->compress_thread = g_new0(QemuThread, thread_count);
     comp_param = g_new0(CompressParam, thread_count);
@@ -989,9 +991,16 @@ static int ram_find_and_save_block(QEMUFile *f, bool 
last_stage)
                 block = QTAILQ_FIRST(&ram_list.blocks);
                 complete_round = true;
                 ram_bulk_stage = false;
+                if (migrate_use_xbzrle()) {
+                    /* If xbzrle is on, stop using the data compression at this
+                     * point. In theory, xbzrle can do better than compression.
+                     */
+                    flush_compressed_data(f);
+                    compression_switch = false;
+                }
             }
         } else {
-            if (migrate_use_compression()) {
+            if (compression_switch && migrate_use_compression()) {
                 bytes_sent = ram_save_compressed_page(f, block, offset,
                                                       last_stage);
             } else {
-- 
1.9.1