Re: [PATCH-for-9.1 v2 2/3] migration: Remove RDMA protocol handling

[Greg Sword]

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 12:33 PM Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 4:43 AM Gonglei (Arei) <arei.gonglei@huawei.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter Xu [mailto:peterx@redhat.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 11:55 PM
> > > > > > Exactly, not so compelling, as I did it first only on servers
> > > > > > widely used for production in our data center. The network
> > > > > > adapters are
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme
> > > > > > BCM5720 2-port Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmm... I definitely thinks Jinpu's Mellanox ConnectX-6 looks more
> > > reasonable.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAMGffEn-DKpMZ4tA71MJYdyemg0Zda15
> > > > > wVAqk81vXtKzx-LfJQ@mail.gmail.com/
> > > > >
> > > > > Appreciate a lot for everyone helping on the testings.
> > > > >
> > > > > > InfiniBand controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family
> > > > > > [ConnectX-5]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > which doesn't meet our purpose. I can choose RDMA or TCP for VM
> > > > > > migration. RDMA traffic is through InfiniBand and TCP through
> > > > > > Ethernet on these two hosts. One is standby while the other is 
> > > > > > active.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now I'll try on a server with more recent Ethernet and InfiniBand
> > > > > > network adapters. One of them has:
> > > > > > BCM57414 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The comparison between RDMA and TCP on the same NIC could make
> > > > > > more
> > > > > sense.
> > > > >
> > > > > It looks to me NICs are powerful now, but again as I mentioned I
> > > > > don't think it's a reason we need to deprecate rdma, especially if
> > > > > QEMU's rdma migration has the chance to be refactored using rsocket.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anyone who started looking into that direction?  Would it
> > > > > make sense we start some PoC now?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > My team has finished the PoC refactoring which works well.
> > > >
> > > > Progress:
> > > > 1.  Implement io/channel-rdma.c,
> > > > 2.  Add unit test tests/unit/test-io-channel-rdma.c and verifying it
> > > > is successful, 3.  Remove the original code from migration/rdma.c, 4.
> > > > Rewrite the rdma_start_outgoing_migration and
> > > > rdma_start_incoming_migration logic, 5.  Remove all rdma_xxx functions
> > > > from migration/ram.c. (to prevent RDMA live migration from polluting the
> > > core logic of live migration), 6.  The soft-RoCE implemented by software 
> > > is
> > > used to test the RDMA live migration. It's successful.
> > > >
> > > > We will be submit the patchset later.
> > >
> > > That's great news, thank you!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Peter Xu
> >
> > For rdma programming, the current mainstream implementation is to use 
> > rdma_cm to establish a connection, and then use verbs to transmit data.
> >
> > rdma_cm and ibverbs create two FDs respectively. The two FDs have different 
> > responsibilities. rdma_cm fd is used to notify connection establishment 
> > events,
> > and verbs fd is used to notify new CQEs. When poll/epoll monitoring is 
> > directly performed on the rdma_cm fd, only a pollin event can be monitored, 
> > which means
> > that an rdma_cm event occurs. When the verbs fd is directly polled/epolled, 
> > only the pollin event can be listened, which indicates that a new CQE is 
> > generated.
> >
> > Rsocket is a sub-module attached to the rdma_cm library and provides rdma 
> > calls that are completely similar to socket interfaces. However, this 
> > library returns
> > only the rdma_cm fd for listening to link setup-related events and does not 
> > expose the verbs fd (readable and writable events for listening to data). 
> > Only the rpoll
> > interface provided by the RSocket can be used to listen to related events. 
> > However, QEMU uses the ppoll interface to listen to the rdma_cm fd (gotten 
> > by raccept API).
> > And cannot listen to the verbs fd event. Only some hacking methods can be 
> > used to address this problem.
> >
> > Do you guys have any ideas? Thanks.
> +cc linux-rdma

Why include rdma community?

> +cc Sean
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Gonglei
>