From: Amnon Ilan <ailan@redhat.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] dpdk/vhost-user and VM migration
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 05:52:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <985011766.3510996.1446025964838.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151016073738.GK3115@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yuanhan Liu" <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:37:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] dpdk/vhost-user and VM migration
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:16:29AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I am currently looking at how using dpdk on host, accessing VM memory
> > using the vhost-user interface, interacts with VM migration.
> >
> > The issue is that any changes made to VM memory need to be tracked so
> > that updates can be sent from migration source to destination.
> >
> > At the moment, there's a proposal of an interface extension to
> > vhost-user which adds ability to do this tracking through shared memory.
> > dpdk would then be responsible for tracking these updates using atomic
> > operations to set bits (per page written) in a memory bitmap.
> >
> > This only needs to happen during migration, at other times there could
> > be a jump to skip this logging.
> >
> > Is this a reasonable approach?
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> As I stated in another email, adding dpdk/vhost-user vm migration
> support is my second TODO. However, I barely know anything about
> vm migration so far, that I can't tell now.
>
> I will re-visit this question when I finished my first item and
> after some more investigation.
Yuanhan,
Live-migration for vhost-user is now available upstream.
Do you need some guidance on how to implement it in DPDK?
Amnon
>
> --yliu
>
> > Would performance degradation during
> > migration associated with atomics affect the performance to a level
> > where it's no longer useful? Pls note these logs aren't latency
> > sensitive, so can be done on a separate core, and can be batched.
> >
> >
> > One alternative I'm considering is extending linux kernel so it can do
> > this tracking automatically, by marking pages read-only, detecting a
> > pagefault and logging the write, then making the pages writeable. This
> > would mean higher worst-case overhead (pagefaults are expensive) but
> > lower average one (not extra code after the first fault). Not sure how
> > feasible this is yet, this would be harder to implement and it will only
> > be apply to newer host kernels.
> >
> > Any feedback would be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > MST
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-13 21:16 Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-16 7:37 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-28 9:52 ` Amnon Ilan [this message]
2015-10-28 12:30 ` Yuanhan Liu
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