Re: [PATCH] multifd: Avoid busy-wait in multifd_send_pages()

[Juan Quintela]

"manish.mishra" <manish.mishra@nutanix.com> wrote:
> multifd_send_sync_main() posts request on the multifd channel
> but does not call sem_wait() on channels_ready semaphore, making
> the channels_ready semaphore count keep increasing.
> As a result, sem_wait() on channels_ready in multifd_send_pages()
> is always non-blocking hence multifd_send_pages() keeps searching
> for a free channel in a busy loop until a channel is freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: manish.mishra <manish.mishra@nutanix.com>
> ---
>  migration/multifd.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/multifd.c b/migration/multifd.c
> index cce3ad6988..43d26e7012 100644
> --- a/migration/multifd.c
> +++ b/migration/multifd.c
> @@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ int multifd_send_sync_main(QEMUFile *f)
>  
>          trace_multifd_send_sync_main_signal(p->id);
>  
> +        qemu_sem_wait(&multifd_send_state->channels_ready);
>          qemu_mutex_lock(&p->mutex);
>  
>          if (p->quit) {

We need this, but I think it is better to put it on the second loop.

> @@ -919,7 +920,7 @@ int multifd_save_setup(Error **errp)
>      multifd_send_state = g_malloc0(sizeof(*multifd_send_state));
>      multifd_send_state->params = g_new0(MultiFDSendParams, thread_count);
>      multifd_send_state->pages = multifd_pages_init(page_count);
> -    qemu_sem_init(&multifd_send_state->channels_ready, 0);
> +    qemu_sem_init(&multifd_send_state->channels_ready, thread_count);
>      qatomic_set(&multifd_send_state->exiting, 0);
>      multifd_send_state->ops = multifd_ops[migrate_multifd_compression()];

I think this bit is wrong.
We should not set the channels ready until the thread is ready and
channel is created.

What do you think about this patch:

>From bcb0ef9b97b858458c403d2e4dc9e0dbd96721b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:20:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] multifd: Fix the number of channels ready

We don't wait in the sem when we are doing a sync_main.  Make it wait
there.  To make things clearer, we mark the channel ready at the
begining of the thread loop.

This causes a busy loop in multifd_send_page().
Found-by: manish.mishra <manish.mishra@nutanix.com>

Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
---
 migration/multifd.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/migration/multifd.c b/migration/multifd.c
index 903df2117b..e625e8725e 100644
--- a/migration/multifd.c
+++ b/migration/multifd.c
@@ -635,6 +635,7 @@ int multifd_send_sync_main(QEMUFile *f)
     for (i = 0; i < migrate_multifd_channels(); i++) {
         MultiFDSendParams *p = &multifd_send_state->params[i];
 
+        qemu_sem_wait(&multifd_send_state->channels_ready);
         trace_multifd_send_sync_main_wait(p->id);
         qemu_sem_wait(&p->sem_sync);
 
@@ -668,6 +669,7 @@ static void *multifd_send_thread(void *opaque)
     p->num_packets = 1;
 
     while (true) {
+        qemu_sem_post(&multifd_send_state->channels_ready);
         qemu_sem_wait(&p->sem);
 
         if (qatomic_read(&multifd_send_state->exiting)) {
@@ -736,7 +738,6 @@ static void *multifd_send_thread(void *opaque)
             if (flags & MULTIFD_FLAG_SYNC) {
                 qemu_sem_post(&p->sem_sync);
             }
-            qemu_sem_post(&multifd_send_state->channels_ready);
         } else if (p->quit) {
             qemu_mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
             break;
-- 
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