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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2025-07-13 01:45:30 -0400
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2025-07-13 01:45:30 -0400
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Merge tag 'migration-20250711-pull-request' of https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu into staging
Migration pull request - General cleanups around: postcopy, bg-snapshot, migration hooks, migration completion and formatting of 'info migrate'. - Overhaul of postcopy blocktime tracking. # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- # # iQJEBAABCAAuFiEEqhtIsKIjJqWkw2TPx5jcdBvsMZ0FAmhxGdgQHGZhcm9zYXNA # c3VzZS5kZQAKCRDHmNx0G+wxnahoD/9uNXirlmRk3tDnhiJsiYx+HnXYPFEORSZq # zlpUyqvhQ1POp3Fa5pRf+bJ5mmPw8h8PdOR2StMpnW2Xa1OatAZj5m1uityAVWOl # EkVfZLl0j6j9HCCmE3c4dztOGIBsd9YY0GWizL05XHYZPrdX4zOpolMN4m53RwQY # HUVD6T2y9eFDnCO6MsoA9EfmkFYCRvqlS0VzTcYzQFN4H+QHlcpDfweqJpTLPa+1 # trahAN9PBuMjoewjDqwkNkf0CLaCXHszAfj6yv62Vi8Cbp9DDPywIYJKFnxspElW # Fjg1b4MdsbYZNmeKgIawzgTOL1RrojvKkoi7KWp3D7M+/ZZl9kBwQuUcBXKI7N0R # Y0GNfkkTycn18nM0JU/6QWSuVeiPbLArxQUGP1cLgvcHSSNgD9JxWbNBu5+1fFOG # Gg3qnyYatJ6xJDiCrdKqV8fwozNlm/G6b9BiCDeVq+4nA2OKQ0shiNA1GZHvVSQL # X4uAPexETdHfA/LeA2w5sgVBEw7BewBdjLntZDIFsyBnLrvqrDcU5Aav0wiHoI8U # QBC2aIpJfMLHiIQ93mVX96NltXC7KvJTIZVl3iwfiYEYCvQtTYgdJ09ELXFJYxFX # XpTTazqpmPSfuZpPRgx9YbDP/kS8Fg/PTOlPeD0T/frFgd1S6Thh6OW455PavMp8 # ht2lE4sxjA== # =vtRD # -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # gpg: Signature made Fri 11 Jul 2025 10:04:08 EDT # gpg: using RSA key AA1B48B0A22326A5A4C364CFC798DC741BEC319D # gpg: issuer "farosas@suse.de" # gpg: Good signature from "Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>" [unknown] # gpg: aka "Fabiano Almeida Rosas <fabiano.rosas@suse.com>" [unknown] # gpg: WARNING: The key's User ID is not certified with a trusted signature! # gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. # Primary key fingerprint: AA1B 48B0 A223 26A5 A4C3 64CF C798 DC74 1BEC 319D * tag 'migration-20250711-pull-request' of https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu: (26 commits) migration: Rename save_live_complete_precopy_thread to save_complete_precopy_thread migration/postcopy: Add latency distribution report for blocktime migration/postcopy: blocktime allows track / report non-vCPU faults migration/postcopy: Optimize blocktime fault tracking with hashtable migration/postcopy: Cleanup the total blocktime accounting migration/postcopy: Cache the tid->vcpu mapping for blocktime migration/postcopy: Initialize blocktime context only until listen migration/postcopy: Report fault latencies in blocktime migration/postcopy: Add blocktime fault counts per-vcpu migration/postcopy: Bring blocktime layer to ns level migration/postcopy: Drop PostcopyBlocktimeContext.start_time migration/postcopy: Make all blocktime vars 64bits migration/postcopy: Drop all atomic ops in blocktime feature migration/postcopy: Push blocktime start/end into page req mutex migration: Add option to set postcopy-blocktime migration/postcopy: Avoid clearing dirty bitmap for postcopy too migration: Rewrite the migration complete detect logic migration/ram: Add tracepoints for ram_save_complete() migration/ram: One less indent for ram_find_and_save_block() migration: qemu_savevm_complete*() helpers ... Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/migration/main.rst4
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/migration/postcopy.rst36
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst16
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
index cdd4f4a..6493c1d 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
@@ -508,8 +508,8 @@ An iterative device must provide:
the point that stream bandwidth limits tell it to stop. Each call
generates one section.
- - A ``save_live_complete_precopy`` function that must transmit the
- last section for the device containing any remaining data.
+ - A ``save_complete`` function that must transmit the last section for
+ the device containing any remaining data.
- A ``load_state`` function used to load sections generated by
any of the save functions that generate sections.
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/postcopy.rst b/docs/devel/migration/postcopy.rst
index 82e7a84..e319388 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration/postcopy.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/postcopy.rst
@@ -33,25 +33,6 @@ will now cause the transition from precopy to postcopy.
It can be issued immediately after migration is started or any
time later on. Issuing it after the end of a migration is harmless.
-Blocktime is a postcopy live migration metric, intended to show how
-long the vCPU was in state of interruptible sleep due to pagefault.
-That metric is calculated both for all vCPUs as overlapped value, and
-separately for each vCPU. These values are calculated on destination
-side. To enable postcopy blocktime calculation, enter following
-command on destination monitor:
-
-``migrate_set_capability postcopy-blocktime on``
-
-Postcopy blocktime can be retrieved by query-migrate qmp command.
-postcopy-blocktime value of qmp command will show overlapped blocking
-time for all vCPU, postcopy-vcpu-blocktime will show list of blocking
-time per vCPU.
-
-.. note::
- During the postcopy phase, the bandwidth limits set using
- ``migrate_set_parameter`` is ignored (to avoid delaying requested pages that
- the destination is waiting for).
-
Postcopy internals
==================
@@ -312,3 +293,20 @@ explicitly) to be sent in a separate preempt channel, rather than queued in
the background migration channel. Anyone who cares about latencies of page
faults during a postcopy migration should enable this feature. By default,
it's not enabled.
+
+Postcopy blocktime statistics
+-----------------------------
+
+Blocktime is a postcopy live migration metric, intended to show how
+long the vCPU was in state of interruptible sleep due to pagefault.
+That metric is calculated both for all vCPUs as overlapped value, and
+separately for each vCPU. These values are calculated on destination
+side. To enable postcopy blocktime calculation, enter following
+command on destination monitor:
+
+``migrate_set_capability postcopy-blocktime on``
+
+Postcopy blocktime can be retrieved by query-migrate qmp command.
+postcopy-blocktime value of qmp command will show overlapped blocking
+time for all vCPU, postcopy-vcpu-blocktime will show list of blocking
+time per vCPU.
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst b/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst
index 673e354..2d8e5ca 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/vfio.rst
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ VFIO implements the device hooks for the iterative approach as follows:
in the non-multifd mode.
In the multifd mode it just emits either a dummy EOS marker.
-* A ``save_live_complete_precopy`` function that sets the VFIO device in
- _STOP_COPY state and iteratively copies the data for the VFIO device until
- the vendor driver indicates that no data remains.
- In the multifd mode it just emits a dummy EOS marker.
+* A ``save_complete`` function that sets the VFIO device in _STOP_COPY
+ state and iteratively copies the data for the VFIO device until the
+ vendor driver indicates that no data remains. In the multifd mode it
+ just emits a dummy EOS marker.
-* A ``save_live_complete_precopy_thread`` function that in the multifd mode
+* A ``save_complete_precopy_thread`` function that in the multifd mode
provides thread handler performing multifd device state transfer.
It sets the VFIO device to _STOP_COPY state, iteratively reads the data
from the VFIO device and queues it for multifd transmission until the vendor
@@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ Live migration save path
|
Then the VFIO device is put in _STOP_COPY state
(FINISH_MIGRATE, _ACTIVE, _STOP_COPY)
- .save_live_complete_precopy() is called for each active device
+ .save_complete() is called for each active device
For the VFIO device: in the non-multifd mode iterate in
- .save_live_complete_precopy() until
+ .save_complete() until
pending data is 0
In the multifd mode this iteration is done in
- .save_live_complete_precopy_thread() instead.
+ .save_complete_precopy_thread() instead.
|
(POSTMIGRATE, _COMPLETED, _STOP_COPY)
Migraton thread schedules cleanup bottom half and exits